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Quick question: Does anyone know why a basic thing like printing seems to not be included in the default atom app?
Is your printer one of those combo printer + fax machines? You can copy/paste the code you want to print into an email, email it to a computer with a fax connection, and then fax it to that printer.
They hijacked the way you open files now and from what I can see reading through release notes and commits there's no way of opening a file permanently without double clicking. With preview mode enabled I have to dbl click the tab and with it disabled I have to dbl click the file name. It would be nice if opening a file had regular single click functionality when preview mode was disabled. Or maybe another setting fo…
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> 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.
It does not take a few seconds to get fuzzy search working on emacs in any shape or form. You have to add an addon like helm or icicles to get anywhere near atom's functionality. And you have to learn how to get addons to work. It works without an add on in Atom, and you don't need to do a Google search to figure it out. I actually hate Atom and I resent you making me defend it. >:|
I've used both and by and large they were very effective replacements for each other, but Atom had performance issues with large files so I went back to Sublime. What am I missing out on?
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The handling for modern Javascript development tools is superior than any other editor I've used, Vim and Emacs included unfortunately. I use Vim for everything, except JS development. For that I use Atom.
What plugins do you use for JS?
As Javascript is Atom's native language, support for JS is very good to start with.
Have a look here for additional plugins: https://atom.io/packages/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=keyword%3Aj...
Anything with more than 10K users is likely to very useful.
Genuine, non-trolly question: why would I use Atom over Sublime Text? I've used both and by and large they were very effective replacements for each other, but Atom had performance issues with large files so I went back to Sublime. What am I missing out on?
All the usual Open vs Closed Source arguments apply.
Genuine, non-trolly question: why would I use Atom over Sublime Text? I've used both and by and large they were very effective replacements for each other, but Atom had performance issues with large files so I went back to Sublime. What am I missing out on?
Genuine, non-trolly question: why would I use Atom over Sublime Text? I've used both and by and large they were very effective replacements for each other, but Atom had performance issues with large files so I went back to Sublime. What am I missing out on?
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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…
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I'm making a bit of a habit of chipping in on Atom performance complaints with a counterpoint. I've now used Atom as my primary editor for more than a year, and I have no complaints about the performance. This could be because I'm using OSX on recent hardware - I've noticed that my friends using Linux desktops seem to have more issues than I do.
Having both Atom and VS Code installed on recent hardware I can say VS Code definitely feels snappier in multiple aspects. It's hard to believe both editors share Electron roots. And not to make this an X is better than Y comment, but the much better (in my experience) high-DPI handling with VS Code does the same. I wonder what exactly VS Code does to manage to be the only Electron based application that I've used th…
It's released by a company that has internal controls on making sure released apps are high-DPI compliant.