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The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.
The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.
How often are you running you Macbook in a non-charger-available environment where you'd run your battery down enough to test this? Or have you specifically disconnected to test this? (Not /s, actual questions)
I was reading that page until I hit their preview of 1.2 work, and clicking through to the PR for CJK soft-wrap sort of confirmed all my fears about what a bad idea it is to try and write a text editor against a browser engine. Just from skimming it a bit, to handle Korean, their developer decided that Korean characters have a special unique width from other writing systems and gets that width from the cached boundin…
Locally, I've tried Atom every now and again and even with the new improvements in 1.1, as soon as you get above a certain threshold in number of lines it starts to slow down considerably (>= 250ms key-press, subjectively) which would only be acceptable if I was running in the browser and even then would be barely useable. Come to mind, the cloud9 ide feels 'snappier' that Atom.
The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.
How often are you running you Macbook in a non-charger-available environment where you'd run your battery down enough to test this? Or have you specifically disconnected to test this? (Not /s, actual questions)
The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.
How often are you running you Macbook in a non-charger-available environment where you'd run your battery down enough to test this? Or have you specifically disconnected to test this? (Not /s, actual questions)
If I am running a couple of iTerm windows, chrome for the dev tools (even though this eats up more battery then safari) with a couple of tabs open and sublime tex i'll get about 6 hours on average running my normal workflow. If I switch to Atom instead of Sublime I get just about 5 hours.
This is down to ~10% before anxiety kicks in and I have to return to the cord.
The biggest problem with Atom for me is Sublime Text, it just does everything that Atom does and most important is that my battery lasts about 30% more with SublimeText compared to Atom, never mind performance improvements I get with Sublime Text. I am using latest retina macbook pro 15.
I've tried that editor year or so ago, and was disappointed that it ever tried to connect to the network to do all sort of stuff. Don't really remember any details, I think there was some analytics, auto-updates etc etc. I'm certain that it can all be disabled, but is there any ready to use recipe to do so? I mean, I want all the non-network-related software I use to literally never try to do anything network-related…
Atom automatically downloads updates and also hits a google analytics URL every time you open it. The latter can be prevented if you disable the metrics package but you can't turn off update auto-download. This is unacceptable for what essentially is a text editor.
I was reading that page until I hit their preview of 1.2 work, and clicking through to the PR for CJK soft-wrap sort of confirmed all my fears about what a bad idea it is to try and write a text editor against a browser engine. Just from skimming it a bit, to handle Korean, their developer decided that Korean characters have a special unique width from other writing systems and gets that width from the cached boundin…
The one thing that intrigued me about Atom is that it would actually run in the browser, meaning somebody would create a version you could load up in chrome/safari/firefox and connect to your github account etc. However I haven't seen anything of the sort yet. Does this exist? Locally, I've tried Atom every now and again and even with the new improvements in 1.1, as soon as you get above a certain threshold in number…
In Vim I can just open up a 21mb db dump, do some regex to delete unwanted rows, and be done after a few seconds. Its amazing how vim can handle large files. I cannot imagine doing the same in Atom.
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The one thing that intrigued me about Atom is that it would actually run in the browser, meaning somebody would create a version you could load up in chrome/safari/firefox and connect to your github account etc. However I haven't seen anything of the sort yet. Does this exist? Locally, I've tried Atom every now and again and even with the new improvements in 1.1, as soon as you get above a certain threshold in number…
That's pretty much the #1 reason why most people still stick to sublime or other text editors. Atom just can't handle large files. It's a shame really because Atom actually looks great and works well as a point and click text editor. But right now Sublime offers everything Atom offers but built on a C++ engine. In Vim I can just open up a 21mb db dump, do some regex to delete unwanted rows, and be done after a few se…
Oh come on now, that's really exagerating.