Re:Introducing Block Decorations
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @08:02PM
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What are people doing with their text editor that they need blazing speed?
I admit the answer that immediately comes to mind is: "uh, editing text?" But to be more serious --
My own coding projects rarely have files with more than 300-400 lines, but the coding projects I'm working on aren't always my own, and my own projects involving text files aren't always coding. If I have reason to load a 3000-line source code file, I don't expect my editor to choke. (I've done this on occasion.) If I have reason to load a 603K, 7300-paragraph Markdown file, I don't expect my editor to choke on that, either. (For somewhat obscure reasons, I'm doing that weekly, and yes, I'm making edits as I go.)
In (very!) limited testing just now with both those cases, Atom 1.4 seemed to do just fine, for the record.
I admit the answer that immediately comes to mind is: "uh, editing text?" But to be more serious --
My own coding projects rarely have files with more than 300-400 lines, but the coding projects I'm working on aren't always my own, and my own projects involving text files aren't always coding. If I have reason to load a 3000-line source code file, I don't expect my editor to choke. (I've done this on occasion.) If I have reason to load a 603K, 7300-paragraph Markdown file, I don't expect my editor to choke on that, either. (For somewhat obscure reasons, I'm doing that weekly, and yes, I'm making edits as I go.)
In (very!) limited testing just now with both those cases, Atom 1.4 seemed to do just fine, for the record.