Limetext (ST clone) and Atoms by GH

[Guest]

Interesting text editors to keep an eye on:

1) Limetext: Experimental Sublime Text clone https://github.com/limetext/lime

2) Atom: GH is building a text editor - will be crossplatform (OSX only atm) and shareware https://atom.io/ - the previews on the blog do look nice

[joedf]

nice!

[lexikos]

Atom is based on web technologies, but currently only available on OSX. Huh?

Brackets is based on web technologies, and is currently available on Windows, Linux and OSX. There's also a port of it that runs on Chrome. I like its "ablity to fluently edit external styles and code without even leaving your document". It's aimed at web developers, but there are already a bunch of extensions that add support for other languages.

Although Atom is based on web technologies, they don't say it's aimed at web development.

[Guest]

Atom is now available for download (Mac only) - what I've read about Atom is that it doesn't handle big files very well, neither does Brackets which I tried (don't have a Mac so can't report on Atom).

[Guest]

You can try to Build Atom yourself on Windows - https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/maste ... windows.md - but some guy has already done this - simply unpack the RAR file you can download from here http://atom.someguy123.com/ - does seem to work although it is pretty slow to start and open files.

[jNizM]

Atom is now available on Windows

[fincs]

Downloaded the ZIP, extracted it, launched atom.exe; then immediately after the program window (which is totally DPI ignorant and appears upscaled and blurry) appears:

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The editor has crashed
Please report this issue to atom@github.com
Close Window / Reload / Keep It Open

I understand this is alpha, but come on! It crashed as soon as I opened it! And no, "Keep It Open" does not work -- the client area of the window stops being updated and it is not even possible to input text. Wonderful.

[jNizM]

my problem with this tool... 5-7 sec to open a 5 kb file

[guest3456]

i'm learning VIM