Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?

Re:Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick? by notum on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:44AM (#9008432)

You have to understand that Atom is repurposed webkit, with all the flaws and benefits that come with a browser engine.

I liked it, the dealbreaker (to say the least) for me was broken support for non-US keyboard layouts, it can't differentiate alt from alt-gr making it impossible for me to type most brackets and pipe.

This has been an open issue for months, with a couple of community contributed "solutions" that don't quite cut it. Considering they are pretty much ignoring the problem I won't be checking out Atom again soon.

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Re:Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick? by adnam on Friday February 06, 2015 @06:27AM (#9008544)

I just downloaded the latest version (on ubuntu 14.04 with Atom 0.177.0) and was able to type "|" and "@" and "\" no without problems on a Spanish-layout keyboard.

Edit: in latest release notes it says "Atom now runs on top of Chrome 40 and io.js".

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Re:Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick? by Moter8 on Friday February 06, 2015 @06:03AM (#9008493)

Link to the issue: https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/35 I'm annoyed by it too, let's hope someone tackles it somewhat soon. I'm still using atom though.

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Re:Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick? by jackjeff on Friday February 06, 2015 @06:12AM (#9008513)

This is specifics to PC's keyboards. Mac ALT keys are symmetrical even on non US keyboard layouts.

I have such a visceral hate for Alt-GRrrrr...

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Re:Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick? by throwaway49873 on Friday February 06, 2015 @06:15AM (#9008524)

"Atom is repurposed webkit"

Hopefully Github will come to their senses and instead start using Skia directly, like ST3 does. Proper 2D library bindings would be super valuable to any community.

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