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It's built on node-webkit and chromium, which technically works on Windows, OSX and Linux. Do you seriously think they would make an OSX only editor when there's already so many that work on all platforms?
The download is only available for Mac today, but we are working on the Linux and Windows builds.
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I taught Linux Admin courses before I graduated high school, and the first order was learning vim. If you have a mac, 'vimtutor' is available to you. vim has nothing to do with PhD-level CS or writing compilers and/or lisp interpreters. The Emacs community might fit that stereotype a little more but really not much more. Vi (vim being 'vi improved') is great because it works on basically any terminal. It works with m…
I was being a smartass, which was uncalled for. Sorry, Angersock! Also, I do have a mac, so maybe I'll check out vimtutor. My point is that I'm very new to programming, and it's so much easier for me to load up Sublime Text and start getting work done. At least for now, learning vim would be something that get's in the way of learning/making. It also doesn't seem like the benefits would outweigh the cost.
I'd say give Vintage mode on sublime a shot. It does the basic keybindings/motions of vim and will give you an idea of whether or not you might be interested in it. It's also nice because in insert mode it's basically just normal sublime, so you can just switch back to that if you get frustrated.
Are you on linux, osx, windows, or something else?
If you use vim/vintage mode, remap capslock to be escape.
This took me forever to figure out, for whatever reason, but if you're on windows, the easiest thing to do is get autohotkey [1] and write a script with one line:
Capslock::Escape
You can compile that to a portable binary and use it anywhere as well. It's really straight forward.
I also added two keybindings to make Alt+movement to add cursors above and below: { "keys": ["alt+k"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} }, { "keys": ["alt+j"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} },
It doesn't always interact naturally with vintage/vim mode, though, but that was just a personal preference.
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Light Table is a great project, but it's all in closurescript -.- This is a big obstacle to people wanting to edit/customize/write their own plugins
And this one is all in Coffeescript... so there is still a niche for an editor in Javascript!
I think, in the long run -3 to 5 years-, Jon Skinner -Sublime Text- will be leading, like now. I can clearly see his passion and investment in his product. People at GitHub are also great, well funded, but this is not their core product. Do they have a leader -I don't know if they have or not- who will be focusing only on this product and keep up with jskinner? I am sure Atom will be around for long years, as well as…
> in the long run -3 to 5 years-, Jon Skinner -Sublime Text- will be leading As an Emacs user, I find it funny to hear 3-5 years be referred to as "the long run". Also, Sublime Text won't be leading until it has a package with more features than Org mode. ;-)
I am not arguing that Sublime Text is the best -because I am not that pro-, but I can assure you it is hot right now, all around the world. It may be wrong, but all cs students and developers I personally know in 4-5 countries use it, like it. Most of the online courses tell their students to use it. It is highly recommended, all over the web.
The word is spreading.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F01yp0m%2C%20%2...
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Any chance for ChromeOS support?
It's most likely not possible until there's a "hosted atom" you connect to with your browser. ChromeOS is /just/ a web browser and won't run node, which Atom uses to do its processing.
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The tabs are the thing that reminds me most of ST but they are practically just Chrome's tabs -- everything else isn't particularly distinctive and seems standard for a text editor.
But the very first thought is "wow, it's exactly the same look as Sublime Text", not JetBrains product, not Eclipse, not even Visual Studio, so they definitely were completely inspired by Sublime in particular.
What's the difference between this and Emacs?
The big difference from my perspective is that Atom isn't currently FOSS. Other than that, the maturity of the emacs ecosystem is both one of its greatest features and a bit of a curse.
Not sure if that's an unfounded fear, but I don't want to invest time customizing a platform and writing plugins when it could close shop in a second. I suppose I could say that about a lot of things I do customize, but it's hard when the FOSS text editor world is so rich.
To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics]( https://github.com/atom/metrics ) for details. More data going to Google without opting in first? Bummer.
Are any of us so self-important, that we think our usage stats for a text editor are some kind of top-secret data?
I mean, come on - it's a text editor - I edit my scratchpad and my coding projects on it.
If any of the stuff I had was that top-secret, I'd be doing it in a digital clean-room, with an airgap. And I'd actually have top-secret clearance.
How many of us here actually have top secret clearance? I'd bet very few...lol. And I doubt they'd be posting here, or admit it.
My list of text files I have open is quite frankly, is not that interesting. I don't really care if Google wants to mine it. Or if Github finds out I edit a document called "Lolcat images" fifteen times a day. I seriously doubt any Githubber is going to be sitting there, pouring through logs looking for salacious information about the documents I edit...
Only? I can point to a large number of Python, Ruby and Perl plugins for Vim. Unless they are considering those special-purpose and nodejs is the only truly flexible scripting language.
> A hackable text editor for the 21st century I'll fix: A proprietary (unhackable) text editor that only runs on OS X. I imagine that web developers will drool over this.
Where are you getting this from? I can see all the source at https://github.com/atom . Every repo I checked has the MIT license.
To compare, Apple releases source code for some components, but they definitely don't distribute "/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext".