NTLM auth is but one of various other roadblocks in a corporate environment.
In my previous job, the company runs a MITM proxy, it broke SSL checks for package managers. You ended up having to disable SSL checks and load up company-issued certs.
I asked whether we can find a solution to this issue on the company forum, as there are other developers and data analyst whose life can be made easier if this just works, the response I get was: "just download them manually", I kid you not.
Sigh... corporate proxies are the worst software I ever had to deal with. Terrible for productivity. Enough that people bring in own 3g dongles and connect to that wifi instead. Whole audit/security defeated :(
I thought they were, but the simple installation of the column select mode failed with a message of missing compiler. I don't want to delve inside my editor internals.
The first difficult thing is to discover that I have to install the sublime-style-column-selection package. So it failed and didn't researched more.
Ops, I've just tried it to see the error message and it worked! The sysadmins just updated a lot of Windows patches, maybe it solved the problem. BTW: VSCodes starts a lot quicker than Atom.
Coffeescript compiler?
>Why not just set up atom to use your existing corporate proxy?
"Many of these text editors support proxy servers, but none of them that I have tried support NTLM for authentication and if your corporate proxy is using NTLM they simply cannot connect to it. Or lets say not directly! Actually the only solution I have found is to use a software called CNTLM that can act as a proxy server itself and behind the scene it can connect to another proxy server that is using NTLM." [1]
As to what needed a compiler, that part I'm not sure about. Aren't Atom extensions generally in javascript? Could it have been the CNTLM installer that wanted a compiler?
[1] https://devinthefastlane.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/how-to-ins...