It's only fashion. There're no hard facts why someone should prefer it to vim, notepad++ or sublime or even a proper IDE like a Jetbrains product or Visual Studio.
Atom 1.0
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Re: Atom 1.0
#382I like Atom, was using for few days and I'm quite happy, also seems much like Sublime Text experience when first launch after Textmate "dies"
Re: Atom 1.0
#383Congrats 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…
Sorry for side-jacking this comment - but which version of Sublime, may I ask, and what OS? I'm using Sublime 2 on OS X and large files + regular expressions are generally a cause for pain. Do you have any default settings changed like disabled document preview or similar? The only thing I generally feel is a champ at regular expressions + insanely large files on OS X is TextWrangler/BBEdit. In fact, I keep TextWrang…
Upgrading to Sublime 3 can't hurt...
I don't have issues with large files on OS X.
Re: Atom 1.0
#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry for side-jacking this comment - but which version of Sublime, may I ask, and what OS? I'm using Sublime 2 on OS X and large files + regular expressions are generally a cause for pain. Do you have any default settings changed like disabled document preview or similar? The only thing I generally feel is a champ at regular expressions + insanely large files on OS X is TextWrangler/BBEdit. In fact, I keep TextWrang…
Upgrading to Sublime 3 can't hurt... I don't have issues with large files on OS X.
Is the beta stable enough to use regularly?
Re: Atom 1.0
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
Upgrading to Sublime 3 can't hurt... I don't have issues with large files on OS X.
Is the beta stable enough to use regularly?
Yes, I would say it is quite stable. In fact, in the ST blog it says: "Sublime Text 3, while still technically in beta, is the recommended version of Sublime Text to use." [0]
[0]: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...
Re: Atom 1.0
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the beta stable enough to use regularly?
Yes, I would say it is quite stable. In fact, in the ST blog it says: "Sublime Text 3, while still technically in beta, is the recommended version of Sublime Text to use." [0] [0]: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...
Thanks :) I'll give it a whirl!
EDIT: WOWOW
Major difference! Definitely sticking with 3!! Thank you :D
Extremely fast in comparison to 2.
Re: Atom 1.0
#387Wow... just downloaded the windows installer version and it autoinstalled itself wherever it chose fit, without questioning, it installed shortcuts on the start menu, placed itself on an already bloated contextual menu on several file extensions as an Open option, instead on "Open with...", etc. I usually install software on my user folder on the work laptop, as I don't have enough priviledges. This time the installe…
I have just pushed version 1.0 of Atom to the scoop-extras repository
If you use Scoop, add the extras bucket using:
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install atom
Re: Atom 1.0
#388Congrats 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.)
I just tried it on a 35MB log file and it gave me an alert that said it was gonna be sluggish, then took about 20s to actually open the file I requested (I could navigate to other tabs in the meantime but there was no indication that anything was happening), and then once the file appeared, it took another 20s to become responsive. Searching for a string which appeared in the second line of the file took over 30s, probably because it was searching the entire file to highlight all matches, and all the while, it was completely unresponsive. Then when I tried to close the file, the entire editor hung and eventually gave me a "this tab is not responding" dialog. I clicked "wait" and it took another 10s and the window finally closed.
All in all I'd say the experience editing large files still completely sucks compared to every other editor I use.
Don't get me wrong, I still love and use Atom, but they really need to come up with a solution to this problem, because it's just ridiculous. The fact that I have to occasionally leave my text editor to edit certain text files is a huge black eye that many people won't put up with, and which I will eventually get tired of putting up with if they don't do something about it soon.
One thing I think they could do is take advantage of the fact that when you are editing a file that large, you don't expect to have a particularly good experience with the scrollbar. I don't open a file with 10 million lines and grab the scrollbar to get to the spot I'm looking for; it's just not practical. Over a certain size, they really don't need to have the entire buffer in memory at once, and maybe they don't even need a usable scrollbar so much as they need good relative navigation and search. It would be perfectly reasonable in my opinion to have a "large file mode" for the editor window that has subtly different behavior that makes it not so ridiculously heavy.
Re: Atom 1.0
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
lol, I'd like to see Sublime opening a multi-GB file. It certainly can't handle more than 50 MB on Windows, and that was after waiting 30 minutes for it to load.
Re: Atom 1.0
#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
Upgrading to Sublime 3 can't hurt... I don't have issues with large files on OS X.
Is the beta stable enough to use regularly?
Atom crashed and froze on me numerous times during this day of 1.0 release. ST3 'beta' has never crashed or frozen on me since it's been out.