I've been wanting, for a long time, to be able to have custom UIs to websites (just like how video games do it). If this is a step in that direction for github, I will be very, very happy.
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#42No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
Of course it's crossplatform. It works on OSX Mavericks and Snow Leapard!
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#43I can't tell from this page whether it's open source -- I hope it is.
From ##atom IRC: kevinsawicki: is the actual core going to be OS? DouweM: not during the beta How is atom both invite-only and open source at the same time? tyOverby: the engine isn't open source (or at least yet)
Welp, makes that decision easy. Not making the most important tool in my toolbox one that I can't hack to my liking.
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#44No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
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.
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#46I wish it was open source. We need a modern, good looking, libre text editor.
Re: Atom
#47No mention of supported platforms, but the documentation refers to keyboard shortcuts like "cmd-shift-P". This isn't Mac-only, is it?
No, just normal developer monoculturalism. Same as showing only Mac screenshots that is common, or showing your website inside a Macbook, etc.
To be fair, would most people know what super-shift-P means?
That said, it would be fairly simple to have a variable for super that resolves to ctrl/cmd on other platforms, the same way that most download pages nowadays infer your platform and show you the binary you most likely want.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
From ##atom IRC: kevinsawicki: is the actual core going to be OS? DouweM: not during the beta How is atom both invite-only and open source at the same time? tyOverby: the engine isn't open source (or at least yet)
Welp, makes that decision easy. Not making the most important tool in my toolbox one that I can't hack to my liking.
Agree. It's a tough decision for them -- I'm sure the "Hot New Text Editor" market has a decent chunk of money associated with it. But it's pretty hard to commit to a text editor that you can't open up and recompile.
EDIT: Plus, if an editor is going to join the ranks of vim and emacs in history (something which neither Sublime nor TextMate are on track to do) it has to be open source. Anything else and it's just another product.
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#49Can I use it online? That would be the killer feature for me, being able to code on anyone's computer in a second. Currently it's basically the only thing stopping me from being able to pick up anyone's computer and use it as I use my own.
Guessing no, because of the Node.js plugin architecture ("need to call into C or C++?", "full access to the filesystem"). Really only the UI seems to be done in WebKit.
From a quick glance it looks like its architected the same as Light Table (Local node server that accesses the file system and a decoupled UI that connects over http and uses WebKit).
If it works like that it could run in the browser. Not so easily from anywhere though
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#50What's the difference between this and Emacs?
This is a text editor.