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by r0muald 4012 days ago
Still, there are six "highlight features" right on the home page:

- Cross-platform editing - Built-in package manager - Smart autocompletion - File system browser - Multiple panes - Find and replace

Is it me, or most of these are so basic that of course any text editor would have at least this set from the start? Right, autocompletion came in several steps for Atom, but .. I have used Atom for a while and it seems to understate the real advantages over other editors, such as: it's a GitHub product!

Which brings me to the part where I couldn't stand Atom: I should be able to do any git operation strsight from Atom, no configuration files needed, with a default plugin! Instead, we are left with many community plugins, like git-diff and atomagit. I hope things will evolve in a way similar to autocomplete.