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Re:Atom 1.12 released by cbcoutinho on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:57AM (#12921457)
FWIW, what I understand from the release notes is that it seems to have been an upstream issue with Chrome 52, not atom itself
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Re:Atom 1.12 released by tomatsu on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:37PM (#12922943)
The problem was that they used Ctrl + Alt for shortcuts, which is something you simply not do on Windows. Ctrl + Alt is the same as AltGr and there are keyboards without a right Alt key. AltGr + X looks like Ctrl + Alt + X, because that's what some people have to press. They are meant to be the same thing.

Chrome merely happened to implement that part of the UI Events spec (it's still a draft) which lets you differentiate between Ctrl + Alt and AltGr.

https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#code-examples

The Atom team simply could have changed their default shortcuts 2.5 years ago. Those shortcuts were the actual bug.

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Re:Atom 1.12 released by nathancahill on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:59AM (#12921488)
So the real issue is building a text editor on top of a browser?
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