Download Atom editor without an invite

Err... because you want to try out an experimental text editor that's rumoured to be quite nice and you run Windows? seriously, what on earth is the point of your post? Are you trying to make a snarky comment about something? if so, at least flesh it out with some actual humour or context.

that command doesn't work anymore

From the README:

> 4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics](https://github.com/atom/metrics) for details.

That is quite horrible in my opinion. Do I want an application on my computer that constantly sends information to Google and Github?

What kind of information is it sending? (from the link)

Collected Data

+ A unique identifier that is generated by computing the SHA-1 of the machine's MAC address.

+ The screen width and height

+ The version of Atom being used

+ The name of each item opened in a pane such as EditorView, SettingsView, and MarkdownPreviewView

+ The amount of time the current window was open for

+ The amount of time the current window took to load

+ The amount of time the app took to launch

Item no. 4 is the critical one. I really don't like this. However, you can apparently disable this:

> If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view `(cmd-,)`.

(edit: removed typo)

Yup, results in

    {"message":"Not Found"}

There doesn't seem to be a way to emulate Vi or Emacs :-(