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Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Cyph0n »

z3t4 wrote: post #332
webwanderings wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked the download button and noticed 70+ MB file. I thought to myself, why in the world a text editor needs to be so huge. And then I see your comment. I clicked on the Pause button on my download.

It comes with Chromium, that is basically a browser. They have their own version of Chromium called Electron. But I recommend nwjs instead, witch is also built on Chromium and nodejs. And lets you make packages that only include your source code, so that you don't have to download the "browser" for every app.

Really? How is the app opened then without bundling Chromium? I built an app 4 months back and that was the only option.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by coldtea »

towelguy wrote: post #262
SamReidHughes wrote: post #150

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Let them speak English! This'll bring the world closer together.

We speak English, but our laptops come with localized keyboards.

Can't you just pick a different layout in the OS -- and that will remap the physical buttons?

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by bdcravens »

3pt14159 wrote: post #340
bdcravens wrote: post #306

Congrats to the team for reaching this important milestone. I'm a Sublime license holder, but I use Atom as much as I can, because the more open source can win, the better. However, yesterday I was doing some complex regex's (porting a random sql dump file into a seeds.rb), and Atom kept dying, whereas Sublime was pretty much instantaneous. I'm not doing the usual "Atom is slow" drum beating, but saying some underton…

lol, 2MB? I use emacs and hardly played with Atom. To me this sounds like you are complaining about a 20MB mp3 interfering with your audio player.

Yeah, it's a bit nuts. Sublime handles those files without batting an eye, and opens files that are hundreds of MB (and even multi-gig files) easily (it handles files that in the past I'd never open in a windowed text editor)

I'm pretty sure it's a limitation of the underlying webkit, as loading a file that big in the browser is typically a bad use case.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by pluma »

SamReidHughes wrote: post #150
GolDDranks wrote: post #92

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That's going to render whole countries worth of developers reconsider using Atom. AltGr is widely used at Nordic countries at least and I wouldn't be surprised if elsewhere too.

Let them speak English! This'll bring the world closer together.

Switching to an American keyboard layout just so programs work isn't very practical. Especially when you have to switch back to your localized layout for correspondence with your non-English speaking peers and colleagues in between.

Personally I even prefer the German layout for programming, though I've met a lot of programmers who prefer the American layout because it requires less chords.

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by ajryan »

Is there anyone with a BGR subpixel-order monitor who has been able to configure Atom (or VS code for that matter) to do the right kind of antialiasing?

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Dingler »

Pretty cool intro vid. A breath of fresh air from the typical startup/product videos I encounter everywhere. I'm excited to see how this progresses. The development appears to be extremely active, with frequent + quality updates. Spotted the new-ish Office Code Pro[1] font in use too...

[1]https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by Brakenshire »

serf wrote: post #326
Brakenshire wrote: post #133

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Do you really want to open log files in a code editor? It's not unreasonable to say that these are two different classes of programs, with different basic requirements.

I find this to be a really tired discussion/response that pops up whenever new software comes around. "X doesn't do Y" "Did you really want Y"? Of course they do, they just complained about it. > It's not unreasonable to say that these are two different classes of programs, with different basic requirements. But it is reasonable to hold a piece of software up to standards set by the majority of other software in the…

> "X doesn't do Y" "Did you really want Y"?

> Of course they do, they just complained about it.

It's just a rhetorical way of saying "I don't understand why that is a problem", and a request for explanation. I would say that's a pretty reasonable response to "I found this is a problem".

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by chc »

bdcravens wrote: post #306

Congrats to the team for reaching this important milestone. I'm a Sublime license holder, but I use Atom as much as I can, because the more open source can win, the better. However, yesterday I was doing some complex regex's (porting a random sql dump file into a seeds.rb), and Atom kept dying, whereas Sublime was pretty much instantaneous. I'm not doing the usual "Atom is slow" drum beating, but saying some underton…

I just tried it on a 14MB file to confirm, and Atom can open files larger than 2MB. (I also scrolled through the whole file just to make sure Atom wasn't cheating somehow, and it seemed to be working fine.)

Re: Atom 1.0

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Post by zevyoura »

drvortex wrote: post #231

I am loathe to install something like Atom with a 4MB limit on file size and 80 MB install size when Sublime Text does the same or better in a 8 MB install package with no limits.

Do you really do your work on a computer where an 80MB install is a problem? No argument on the file size limit.
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