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When I saw a screenshot, I was put off by the ugly tabs. So I made a theme for flat tabs[1]. You can install it by going to Install Themes in the app and searching for "flat". It's called "Atom Dark Flat UI". [1]: http://atom.io/packages/atom-dark-flat-ui
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we all have far less time than it would require to learn all of the interesting things. Once you get good with an editor your time is much better spent learning a new data structure, algorithm, language paradigm, etc than learning a new editor.
Thats maybe true for the vims and emacses of the world, but these new editors come with a fancy pants thing called a GUI. These GUI thingys adhere to certain standards and customs that are set by the OS. I do some web development work from time to time and therefore I have multiple browsers installed on my machine. I can switch between them without having to dig through a manual! I have to learn hardly anything!
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I mostly agree with that although I think it's also kind of irrelevant in a practical sense because many programmers already have to know javascript for their work so you get a lot more people who can contribute right away. Aside from that -- lisp or javascript as the extension language, I'd love to see a brand-new extensible editor like emacs just to have a shot at changing terminology and some of the APIs. Emacs te…
Have you seen Light Table? Go check it out!
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You are so on-the-money about Chocolat. I love it except for the things that drive me crazy. I've been trying to love Sublime Text lately. Even though I see the benefits, I see the un-Mac-like-ness of it even more.
It's a benefit if your team uses a mix of Mac/Linux/Windows.
Couldn't get it to work on Debian Wheezy yet (GLIBC_2.15 not found)* but worked on a Windows machine at work so I'm testing it there. I'll get back to linux later. Looking forward for v1.0. :)
* It seems to be a known issue: https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/972
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I agree on the open source nature. However if this editor treats github as a first class citizen (while being free/open) then it does have value to github. This is especially the case for new github features introduced in the future.
There are very few people who would opt in to a editor for everything only to use it with Github. Most of the world's developers don't even have a Github account. Tools work in a strange way. I recently saw a whole team of embedded developers use TextPad. They haven't heard of anything called 'vim' or 'emacs'. From their perspective its either a vendor supplied IDE or TextPad. One of them was even startled to see thi…
A code editor with first class prominent Github support is more likely to encourage creating Github accounts - it would just work. Compare to regular code editors which require jumping through various hoops (typically having to find relevant plugins, install them on all machines/users, and then figure out how to use them as they are extensions not core).
A pitch of "if you use this editor then all the team's work is automatically synchronized and available" is a very powerful sell.
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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.
ChromeOS (rather, Chromebooks) can run more-featured Linux distros like Ubuntu, ArchLinux.
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> There is no reason why "editing plain text" should be anything other than immediately intuitive. Are you suggesting that it isn't in Emacs? Well, I remember using Emacs for the first time. It opened up and I started editing the opened file. I saved the file from the file menu (which also showed me the shortcut for saving the file the next time I have to save something). Done. Now, this is exactly what a novice woul…
> Are you suggesting that it isn't in Emacs? Yes, of course. Emacs is obviously and inarguably not immediately intuitive.
> Emacs is obviously and inarguably not immediately intuitive.
"obviously" : I find it anything but obvious. "inarguably": Really? So it can't even be argued? Well, I don't know what to say to that.
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Do you actually think somebody at Github/Google is individually watching you ? As individual data points, I doubt we're that interesting. It's like NetFlix knowing what movies I watch. I doubt any single NetFlix employee could give two cents that Victor in Australia likes watching Once Upon A Time. (Awesome show, btw). However, if I watch Once Upon A Time, and I also watch XYZ, and then other people do the same, mayb…
Also, you do realize that no one is worried about whether "somebody at Github/Google is individually watching you." Unless of course they have an ex-lover at Github/Google. These organizations, and those capable of secretly subpoenaing them, have software and very fast computers that do the watching. And it's not watching, it's profile building. I'm not saying that this editor's phoning home of usage statistics is re…
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I don't mean to sound hipster or anything but I prefer software with native look-n-feel on the platform I'm using. I tried Emacs on OS X (proglang on Coursera asks students to use it for editing SML), gave it a couple of hours and switched back to Sublime. I understand I missed all its glory and power but at least Sublime scrolls like OS X apps scroll, has shortcuts like OS X apps and looks like a OS X app. But then…
you ain't going to get native look and feel from atom.