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I'm a confirmed Emacs user since the early 1990s. But when I saw Atom in use on a Youtube tutorial video, I decided to try it. Always interested in finding ou
by blisterpeanuts 11y ago
I'm a confirmed Emacs user since the early 1990s. But when I saw Atom in use on a Youtube tutorial video, I decided to try it. Always interested in finding out what "the young'uns" are using.
It's a pretty nice editor, actually. I like the tabs approach; I like the restore at startup. Colorized text works well and detects file types correctly even without filename extension.
I notice there's an atom-macros module. Nice. For me, nothing replaces Emacs... yet... but one of these new kids might sooner or later fit the bill.
- vbit 11y agoWould macros win you over?
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoThat would help. But also, dired (and find-grep-dired, and shell-command-on-region, and delete-rectangle, and a couple dozen others). But that's OK. There's room in the universe for more than one editor. I use vi all the time from the command line for quick edits, and Atom is earning a place in my toolbox as well. As Walt Whitman said: I am large, I contain multitudes.