[blisterpeanuts]

I'm a confirmed Emacs user since the early 1990s. But when I saw Atom in use on a Youtube tutorial video, I decided to try it. Always interested in finding out what "the young'uns" are using.

It's a pretty nice editor, actually. I like the tabs approach; I like the restore at startup. Colorized text works well and detects file types correctly even without filename extension.

I notice there's an atom-macros module. Nice. For me, nothing replaces Emacs... yet... but one of these new kids might sooner or later fit the bill.

[vbit]

Would macros win you over?

[blisterpeanuts]

That would help. But also, dired (and find-grep-dired, and shell-command-on-region, and delete-rectangle, and a couple dozen others).

But that's OK. There's room in the universe for more than one editor. I use vi all the time from the command line for quick edits, and Atom is earning a place in my toolbox as well.

As Walt Whitman said: I am large, I contain multitudes.