Now that Sublime has been mentioned a couple times... that's what I use exclusively now. I do all my code in Sublime Text 3, and then have a separate window with a julia prompt and a terminal which I do any git-stuff.
My question... can anyone convince me why I should switch to Atom? Everyone seems to talk about it as the only viable option... what am I missing? On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 September 2015 at 14:17, Kristoffer Carlsson <kcarlsso...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It was just an example. Everything is slow, startup is slow, marking text >> lags behind the cursor, even pressing Ctrl + Shift + P has a >> noticeable delay. When you are used to something like Sublime where >> everything is instantaneous it is basically unusable. >> > > But I *did* come from Sublime, and I honestly don't notice the delays you > are talking about. Marking text lags behind the cursor? Really? I'm trying > it right now and I just can't reproduce it. I loved Sublime, but I felt > that Atom was better (I was sold on the Git integration). > > > >> And yes, the fact that if you want to look in a log file means you have >> to start up another text editor is also frankly embarrasing. >> > > > What? Why would I be looking at log files in an editor? I use `less` or > `grep` when I need to look at a log file. If I'm looking at log files, > chances are that I am also at a terminal, and the natural thing for me to > do is to use standard commands like less, grep, gawk, sed and similar. When > I was using Sublime, I never once thought to open a log file in Sublime. It > just seems so much less efficient than less/grep. > > Cheers, > Daniel. >
