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> From the tone of some of these posts, you'd think downloading Atom and subsequently realizing it doesn't suit one's needs caused lasting psychological harm.

No lasting harm, but I did invest quite a bit of time to discover that it doesn't suite my needs.

> It takes all of 200ms and a wee bit of inference to figure out that their usage of "text editor" is different from yours.

No it doesn't, it takes experience with the editor. 200ms of googling shows there are some log and tail plugins, which would lead me ot believe it was good at handling large files.