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Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr. They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.

by tomatsu 10y ago

Walkman 10y ago
This! I don't even know how can they name something a text editor in which you CANNOT TYPE letters you know, the most important feature of a text editor to allow typing and Atom can't do that.
pier25 10y ago
They? Atom is a collaborative effort, you can fix that yourself.
- PeCaN 10y ago
  While open-source is nice, if an editor doesn't support my keyboard I would just pick a different editor instead of patching core functionality in. It's not like there's a shortage of editors that let you use non-US keyboards.
- tomatsu 10y ago
  > you can fix that yourself I can't and neither can you. You can't go back in time and tell them that they shouldn't use Alt+Ctrl for any of the built-in shortcuts. You also can't get rid of those shortcuts. You also can't finalize that UI Events spec and just land those features in Chromium. They could have gotten rid of those shortcuts, but they decided against it. Anyhow, Chrome 51+ (current stable is 52) does support the required part of the spec now. https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/ https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/ I do get: Alt AltLeft AltGraph AltRight Which means you can now easily and accurately tell if AltGr was pressed. This release of Atom could have fixed it.
- coldtea 10y ago
  "Can" implies both ability (e.g. Javascript programming) and time to delve into the internals to find the issue, go through the procedure of submitting a patch etc, which is not a given the parent has, whether Atom is "collaborative" or not.
Nullabillity 10y ago
AltGr works fine for me on Linux, and has since the first time I tried Atom ages ago.
JorgeGT 10y ago
This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.
- PSeitz 10y ago
  If V8 can't handle it, there is no way Atom will handle it. Some would assess this as major software design issue (yeah I mean me).
  - zamalek 10y ago
    Why can't V8 handle it? Too many pointers on the heap?
    - PSeitz 10y ago
      V8 has some limits on memory allocation. I don't know why. I guess the engine allocators are not optimized to handle very large allocations.
  - tomatsu 10y ago
    VS Code (which is also built on top of Electron) can handle large files just fine.

Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr. They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.

by tomatsu 10y ago

Each time there's an Atom release announcement, I check if they've finally fixed AltGr. They didn't. Most non-US keyboard layouts are still broken.

Walkman 10y ago

This! I don't even know how can they name something a text editor in which you CANNOT TYPE letters you know, the most important feature of a text editor to allow typing and Atom can't do that.

pier25 10y ago

They? Atom is a collaborative effort, you can fix that yourself.

PeCaN 10y ago
While open-source is nice, if an editor doesn't support my keyboard I would just pick a different editor instead of patching core functionality in. It's not like there's a shortage of editors that let you use non-US keyboards.
tomatsu 10y ago
> you can fix that yourself I can't and neither can you. You can't go back in time and tell them that they shouldn't use Alt+Ctrl for any of the built-in shortcuts. You also can't get rid of those shortcuts. You also can't finalize that UI Events spec and just land those features in Chromium. They could have gotten rid of those shortcuts, but they decided against it. Anyhow, Chrome 51+ (current stable is 52) does support the required part of the spec now. https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/ https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/ I do get: Alt AltLeft AltGraph AltRight Which means you can now easily and accurately tell if AltGr was pressed. This release of Atom could have fixed it.
coldtea 10y ago
"Can" implies both ability (e.g. Javascript programming) and time to delve into the internals to find the issue, go through the procedure of submitting a patch etc, which is not a given the parent has, whether Atom is "collaborative" or not.

Nullabillity 10y ago

AltGr works fine for me on Linux, and has since the first time I tried Atom ages ago.

JorgeGT 10y ago

This, and the inability to open large text files. You would think a priority for a text editor would be to be able to actually open text files and write correctly on them.

PSeitz 10y ago
If V8 can't handle it, there is no way Atom will handle it. Some would assess this as major software design issue (yeah I mean me).
- zamalek 10y ago
  Why can't V8 handle it? Too many pointers on the heap?
  - PSeitz 10y ago
    V8 has some limits on memory allocation. I don't know why. I guess the engine allocators are not optimized to handle very large allocations.
- tomatsu 10y ago
  VS Code (which is also built on top of Electron) can handle large files just fine.