I hope that it doesn't suffer from the same text redering issuies that LT nad Brackets has.
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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.
Linux, please!
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Welp, makes that decision easy. Not making the most important tool in my toolbox one that I can't hack to my liking.
But in some degree you can't hack the heart of Emacs and Vim as well: its too complicated.
Vim is available on all (relevant) operating systems.
Vim doesn't require an invite.
Not for me. I do like to give new editors a try (fell deeply in love with LightTable just a short while ago), but OS X as main platform and yet another closed editor?
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#164I don't like how it looks like Sublime text... couldn't they have designed something new?
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.
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Good catch. I really shouldn't have any more of a problem with a desktop app tracking me than I do a web app but for some reason I do. I guess because I can always use Disconnect in the browser and I can't with Atom. I guess the fact that it is open about it is a positive thing, though.
It sounds like you can disable Metrics in the settings.
Some apps ask on install if you agree to share usage data. I can't say how Atom handles it, but it sounds like you're in unless you modify the config.
BTW, I'm less concerned and more just surprised to see Google Analytics used like this. I guess it really is the blurring of the lines between desktop and browser-based apps.
Maybe this GA usage is not unique, but it's new to me.
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#166I will switch to this if it is as good as Sublime Text, but with a more open API. Sublime Text's API is too restricted, and there's a ton of things I want in Sublime Text that IDEs have.. but I don't want a full-blown IDE.
Take the overall diff bar of most IDEs for example (Jetbrains, Netbeans, etc.). I want that in Sublime/Atom. There is a plug-in for Sublime to show diffs per line, but no way to manipulate the mini-map to show diffs at a glance.
http://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/files/2013/12/2.png
Edit:
See, this is inferior and what Sublime Text already has: http://atom.io/packages/git-diff
What's superior is a full-blown diff bar overview of the file.
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#167I was all ready to be skeptical and everything... but this could actually be amazing. I currently use Chocolat for code editing, which is beautifully elegant and I love it, but there are 25 little tiny things that I really wish I could fix. I file issues, but the developers rightly have their own priorities. It's closed-source, but even if it were open source, I'm not about to learn how to use XCode and Objective C a…
> and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be. > It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player. Just by opening up a text editor. It's an inspiring thought. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but you can already do this with Emacs, not to mention that Emacs is free, open source software.…
> Atom is free during the beta period.
Where does it say it won't be free after the beta period?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be. > It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player. Just by opening up a text editor. It's an inspiring thought. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but you can already do this with Emacs, not to mention that Emacs is free, open source software.…
> Atom is free during the beta period. Where does it say it won't be free after the beta period?
Well, one can only assume, based on the wording they use here:
https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/lib/welcome.md
> Atom is free during the beta period.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been playing with it for a few minutes now, and it's definitely the case that it's easier to tweak. Not because of the underlying language, but because they expose so much of what's available through a GUI. I'm blown away by how cool this is. I'm just really hoping for good Vim keybindings and I will pay good money for this once it's out of beta.
You may have found it already, but there is: https://github.com/atom/vim-mode
Yup, saw it and looking forward to trying it (haven't yet). But just reading through the description made it clear it wasn't quite ready yet.