On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:52 PM, Edward K. Ream <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't panic. Note the word "might" in the title. > > Before going further, please look at the Why Atom? > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/why-atom/> page. > It would also be good to install atom > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installing-atom/> > and read Atom Basics > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/atom-basics/> > page. Make sure to try Shift-Ctrl-P :-) > > The atom editor deserves serious consideration as a "hosting platform" for > Leo's technology, for at least the following reasons: > > - Afaik, atom does everything it has *in common* with Leo significantly > better than Leo does. That includes installing plugins and themes, > managing the screen, search/replace, basic settings, minibuffer interface, > syntax coloring, auto-completion, support for git, rendering markdown, > IPython/Jupyter support, etc. Atom might win the "most cool features" award > among all text editors and ide's. > > - Atom has superb docs, and is significantly easier for newbies to use > than Leo. > > - Atom is "going places". Atom has a large user base and many active > devs. Atom boasts hundreds of plugins, including: > ... has a large user... <-- that is maybe hallucination ;-) VSCode base same construct with Atom, and now has same problems: - open big file slow more and more - crash by memory broken - ... in fact, most problem 's root just come from --> Chromium Chromium/Chrome grasp the world marketplace, now base quality, just base google's android and AD pv for now Chrome become corrupt quickly, in the true life, i main browser is always FireFox v56; the important action in Safari, only the gmail/facebook/youtube/... need anti-GFW action , in Chrome. > > hydrogen <https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen>: Adds IPython-like > features and was inspired by Light Table, with similar features. Another > post will discuss how this might be adapted to form the basis of a Leo > plugin for Atom. This apparently replaces the jupyter-notebook plugin. > > remote-edit <https://atom.io/packages/remote-edit>: Supports browsing and > editing remote files using FTP and SFTP. > > This page <https://atom.io/packages/list?direction=desc&sort=downloads> > lists all atom plugins, sorted by most downloads. > > as same reason, like NPM grown so high-speed, the Atom plugin grown high-speed, but for the function, always not good enough than sublime text ecology... > - Atom is a desktop App. From the Why Atom? > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/why-atom/> page: > > "Web browsers are great for browsing web pages, but writing code is a > specialized activity that warrants dedicated tools. More importantly, the > browser severely restricts access to the local system for security reasons, > and for us, a text editor that couldn't write files or run local > subprocesses was a non-starter." > > - Atom uses the *latest* version of the Chrome rendering engine. From > the Why Atom? > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/why-atom/> page: > > "Another great benefit [of Atom] is the guarantee that it's running on the > newest version of Chromium. That means we can ignore issues like browser > compatibility and polyfills. *We can use all the web's shiny features of > tomorrow, today*." > > - Atom plays well with C++ (or Python): From the Why Atom? > <http://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/why-atom/> page: > > "Interacting with native code is also really simple. For example, we wrote > a wrapper around the Oniguruma regular expression engine for our TextMate > grammar support. In a browser, that would have required adventures with > NaCl or Esprima. Node integration made it easy." > > *Summary* > > Atom has virtually everything, *except* those features that make Leo what > it is, namely scripting *in Python,* scripting API, clones, access to > outline data, @clean, etc. We might delegate everything else to atom ;-) > > agree, hosting base Atom, is better than re-build Leo's core by rust > The big question is, can Leo remain Leo when hosted on atom? I believe > the answer is yes. The hydrogen <https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen> > package hints at the way forward. More details in another post or two. > > My next prototype will be an atom plugin, following this excellent > tutorial <https://github.com/blog/2231-building-your-first-atom-plugin>. > > Yes, as NPM tutorial, node.js 's all kinds of tutorial is beauty than python's, but that is can not fixed the JS nature problems with burn. > All comments welcome. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- life is pathetic, go Pythonic! 人生苦短, Python当歌! 俺: http://zoomquiet.io 授: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/cn/ 怒: 冗余不做,日子甭过!备份不做,十恶不赦! 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