Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released
by llamataboot on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:42PM
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Yeah, Atom is really my favorite editor at the moment in terms of features and add-ons but is totally unusable for me due to various performance issues. Not only does it choke on large files but something like a full-project search can take upwards of 30s to finish while Sublime Text finishes it in about 2-3s. I'd like to switch personally, but I can't until some major performance improvements happen. YMMV.
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Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released
by crucialfelix on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:14AM
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Yes, search is really slow. But atom-fuzzy-grep is near instantaneous even on large projects. Uses ag pt ack or grep
https://atom.io/packages/atom-fuzzy-grep
The nice thing about Atom is that you can replace anything that isn't performing.
What kind of computer and OS are you using?
Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released
by llamataboot on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:56PM
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Late 2013 Retina MBP w/ 16GB of RAM
Unless you tell someone your OS and hardware, it's really not helpful for people to decide, or even address the problems.
Does Atom use a lot of ram or cpu? I've got a 2 year old Mac Book Pro with 16 GB RAM and an SSD. I downloaded Atom 1.6 after the announcement and leave it open to maintain my notes and I haven't noticed any performance problems with a couple dozen files. I might try to use it for another project once I evaluate the plugins.
You shouldn't need a $2000 laptop to run a text editor.
No one said you did. I simply stated what I owned and explained how I use it, and how it performed.
I imagine the same performance as my 2 year old laptop is equivalent to $500-$800 desktop today.
But you will most likely have it anyway.
Speak for yourself. My primary computer is a $200 laptop.
ok, try Atom and report back. The guy who was complaining had projects of several thousand files, some of which were 50,000 line xml files.
Re:Atom text editor 1.7.0 released
by llamataboot on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:57PM
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yes, I have a few thousand files, some of them are 50k+ line XML files. Sublime still searches my full project in many magnitudes of less time that Atom does. I use Atom for my small toy projects as well.