Being very familiar with Emacs, I would never have thought the Atom version to be much more complicated than that. Then I looked at the code in the original li

Being very familiar with Emacs, I would never have thought the Atom version to be much more complicated than that. Then I looked at the code in the original link, and wow. Just... Wow. That cannot possibly be the easiest way to do this? Perhaps there is something to the thing they say about Javacsript programmers and how they manage to reinvent technologies from a couple decades ago, badly?