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Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by taylorwc »

kennywinker wrote: post #9

I've been using Visual Studio Code a bit this past month and there is a lot I like about it. Anyone have thoughts on Code vs Atom? I know Code is based on Atom, but I'm not really clear on how they differ edit: correction. After asking this, I read up a bit and Code is based on Electron which is the core of Atom, but they're fairly different after that.. Code is not a fork of Atom as I thought it was.

I like both. VS Code does indeed feel significantly snappier, but I really love the tabbed view on Atom, and Atom's plugin ecosystem is more developed as of now.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by CyberDildonics »

cha5m wrote: post #22
spdustin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's _after_ the first launch, correct?

Couldn't you just disconnect from the web until Atom was installed and metrics are disabled?

This is why I set windows firewall to disable connections by default and then opt programs in. Visual Studio tries to connect to the internet too.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by sdesol »

santaclaus wrote: post #7
nickpeterson wrote: post #3

Doesn't indicate perf improvements... Not trying to troll, but that surprises me given the large number of complaints about performance.

The performance problems on a clean Atom install are incredibly vexing. Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is built on similar foundations and has great performance, so I don't think Atom's performance problems are fundamental.

> Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is built on similar foundations

This is my understanding of things:

- Electron is built on top of Chromium, where the technology was mainly driven by Google and their engineers.

- Vscode is based on Monaco which Erich Gamma and his team spear headed.

- Atom is based on work done by GitHub.

The analogy would be they both use Honda engines, but Microsoft appears to be able to use Honda's engine way more efficiently than GitHub.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by capote »

ywecur wrote: post #29

For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?

Atom and Emacs are so different I don't think it's worth it to provide reasons for one or the other. Vim/Emacs/etc vs. Sublime/Atom/etc are simply a matter of which type of editor you prefer or need for a particular purpose (classic vs. modern, GUI-based vs. usable over ssh, and many more giant differences...)

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by sergiotapia »

You know what I would really enjoy? Being able to sign into your Github account and sync your preferences and packages to the cloud. Then if I sign in on a different computer, all my hotkeys, packages and themes are copied over seamlessly.

As a crappy workaround I have this: https://github.com/sergiotapia/atom-meteor-packages

But still, I would like this to be a core integration.

I've since switched to RubyMine and WebStorm because I just want something that meshes together for me, I don't want 'javascript fatigue' in my dev tools as well. RubyMine's built in visual studio-like debugger is killer.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by innocentoldguy »

sergiotapia wrote: post #35

You know what I would really enjoy? Being able to sign into your Github account and sync your preferences and packages to the cloud. Then if I sign in on a different computer, all my hotkeys, packages and themes are copied over seamlessly. As a crappy workaround I have this: https://github.com/sergiotapia/atom-meteor-packages But still, I would like this to be a core integration. I've since switched to RubyMine and W…

For me, the Visual Studio-like debugger is killer in theory, but in practice, it hangs a lot and I have to shut down and restart RubyMine.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by sergiotapia »

innocentoldguy wrote: post #36
sergiotapia wrote: post #35

You know what I would really enjoy? Being able to sign into your Github account and sync your preferences and packages to the cloud. Then if I sign in on a different computer, all my hotkeys, packages and themes are copied over seamlessly. As a crappy workaround I have this: https://github.com/sergiotapia/atom-meteor-packages But still, I would like this to be a core integration. I've since switched to RubyMine and W…

For me, the Visual Studio-like debugger is killer in theory, but in practice, it hangs a lot and I have to shut down and restart RubyMine.

That sucks, it works flawlessly for me on my El Capitan and RubyMine 2016.1

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by currysausage »

Without further comment: remove_atom_from_context_menu.reg

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Atom]
  [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\Atom]
  [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Atom]
  [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\Atom]
  [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\Atom]
  [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\Atom]

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by levemi »

ywecur wrote: post #29

For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?

Not sure if you're trolling, because that's a pretty ridiculous question. The obvious answer is Atom's immediate usability and the much easier learning curve over Emacs which requires an incredible amount of research and effort to set up properly and use.

For example how long do you think it takes for the average new programmer choosing Atom to figure out and learn to use the fuzzy file search versus them getting that working on Emacs? Seconds versus hours I imagine. It took me a non-trivial amount of time to set that up on Emacs.

Re: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

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Post by falcolas »

levemi wrote: post #39
ywecur wrote: post #29

For you Atom users: Why have you chosen Atom over, say, Emacs?

Not sure if you're trolling, because that's a pretty ridiculous question. The obvious answer is Atom's immediate usability and the much easier learning curve over Emacs which requires an incredible amount of research and effort to set up properly and use. For example how long do you think it takes for the average new programmer choosing Atom to figure out and learn to use the fuzzy file search versus them getting tha…

> how long do you think it takes for the average new programmer

If they're taking advantage of Google, a few seconds for either one. Discoverability in both kinda sucks.

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