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by JorgeGT 3583 days ago
I thought it was a text editor. It is rather curious that it cannot open large text files.
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sooheon 3583 days ago
Even emacs completely shits the bed when it comes to long lines. I love it, but there are things about every tool that requires tradeoffs. I'm willing to deal with bad performance due to decades old technological decisions, in order to gain (to me) unparalleled editing and customization.
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ChrisClark 3583 days ago
No, it's a code editor.
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tree_of_item 3583 days ago
No, it's a text editor, like it says on https://atom.io/. It doesn't do much for "code" besides draw keywords in pretty colors.
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ssully 3583 days ago
Not according to their website https://atom.io

"Atom - A hackable text editor"

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