How to configure Atom Beautify?

I have installed Atom editor and Atom Beautify package on Ubuntu. However, when opening a new file and trying to "Beautify editor contents" with right-click, Atom pops up the following notice:

Could not find "emacs". The program may not be installed. You can configure Atom Beautify with the absolute path to "emacs" by setting "Executable - Emacs - Path" in the Atom Beautify package settings. Your program is properly installed if running "which emacs" in your Terminal returns an absolute path to the executable.

I try "which emacs" in the Terminal, but nothing returns. Does it mean that Atom Beautify depends on emacs, so to beautify the code in Atom, I should also install emacs?

Could anyone explain how can I configure Atom Beautify with the absolute path to "emacs" by setting "Executable - Emacs - Path" in the Atom Beautify package settings? Thank you very much!

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The message you are seeing is a generic message they will give all when the application cannot find emacs. Ubuntu doesn't come with emacs installed by default, so you will have to install it. Once installed it is in the /usr/bin folder and the application should be able to find it.

From a terminal window run:

sudo apt install emacs

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