Atom text editor

[vinodh]

I just saw this new text editor (new for me anyway) pop up on Twitter that's available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. It's called Atom and is available for free from http://atom.io

Anyone tried it yet? I only used it to mess with a Ghost theme and it seems ok for my limited purposes.

 

[Thor]

I just saw this new text editor (new for me anyway) pop up on Twitter that's available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. It's called Atom and is available for free from http://atom.io

Anyone tried it yet? I only used it to mess with a Ghost theme and it seems ok for my limited purposes.

I use it. But only for sass

I still prefer brackets for general front end, but atom has a really nice sass ability where as brackets barely highlights sass syntax

Atom is very very very configurable which is Amazing but means you need to fiddle to get it to do what you like.

Where brackets out of the box is brilliant, and auto closing of tags is beautiful

 

[vinodh]

Thanks for the info. I'm fairly clueless about this type of stuff but I still think that any tool that can make your job easier should at least be considered.Which is why I'm always messing around with new stuff and constantly breaking things.

 

[Brentontw]

I use atom for small bits of code I need to churn out quickly and don't feel like waiting for my main IDE (intelliJ) to start up, it's really nice, sort of feels very similar to Sublime Text

 

[Hamster]

I use it from time to time but it is a bit of a lightweight. Easy to use though if I don't feel like firing up IntelliJ

 

[garyc]

Real men use emacs, or vi if they are slightly metrosexual.

For a nice light editor check out Kate.

 

[Tokolotshe]

or vi if they are slightly metrosexual.

Foff!

I was using vi with the cow dung under the soles of my shoes still fresh from the farm.

But then again different editors for different tasks. OS level stuff: vi & ed
(In WFWG 3.11 days, the dos version resolved many issues in .ini files etc, the MS types using mik & druk couldn't resolve)

 

[tsavvy]

I love brackets!

Got a lot of extensions to improve coding experience and there is a ton of themes!

 

[Hamster]

I love [-]brackets[/-] hookers!

Got a lot of extensions to improve [-]coding[/-] sexy experience and there is a ton of [-]themes[/-] colours!

FTFY

 

[[)roi(]]

Real men use emacs, or vi if they are slightly metrosexual.

For a nice light editor check out Kate.

Nothing metrosexual about vi; Kate on the other hand sounds like the hand cream and manicure option.

 

[kripstoe]

Real men use emacs, or vi if they are slightly metrosexual.

For a nice light editor check out Kate.

Nonsense. Real men use copy con.

 

[Thor]

Went back to brackets again.

For frontend you just can't beat it.

I have both sublime 3 and atom

Sublime is pretty cool especially with ember(edit emmet) but none of those two can autoclose a variatry of divs like brackets can.

 

[Thor]

If only brackets had a lekker laravel highlighter like sublime 3

 

[eternaloptimist]

Went back to brackets again.

For frontend you just can't beat it.

I have both sublime 3 and atom

Sublime is pretty cool especially with ember but none of those to can autoclose a variatry of divs like brackets can

What do you mean? Like Emmet?
Pretty sure whatever it is you can find it here
https://packagecontrol.io/

 

[Thor]

What do you mean? Like Emmet?
Pretty sure whatever it is you can find it here
https://packagecontrol.io/

I meant Emmet. That where I can type html in css like code and press tab and bomb! Whole html rendered page

 

[eternaloptimist]

well, you can add Emmet to Sublime.
http://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/

Do you have package control installed?
https://packagecontrol.io/installation

 

[Thor]

well, you can add Emmet to Sublime.
http://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/

Do you have package control installed?
https://packagecontrol.io/installation

I have it. Hence why I said I wish brackets could perform like that.

The only reason I use sublime currently is for laravel syntax highlighting

 

[[)roi(]]

Nonsense. Real men use copy con.

Real men use Windows? You're joking right?

 

[dadecoza]

Should I feel bad that I prefer notepad++ ?

 

[Hackson]

Should I feel bad that I prefer notepad++ ?

You should. It is not even recommended for noobs.

I use Sublime on Ubuntu. I use package control for package installation and right now I'm only running a few packages, namely: Stack Overflow for help, Glue terminal for well running some terminal commands from there and finally Js format.