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Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io)

Posted by timothy on from the leave-some-ligature-marks dept.

yathosho writes with some good news for GitHub developers: GitHub's new Atom editor sees a first big update in version 1.1. Character measurement has been improved, fonts with ligatures and variable width fonts are now supported. The biggest new feature is probably live Markdown preview, matching the current theme. There's also a 1.2.0 beta available, for those who want to have a look into Atom's future.

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  1. Why Atom? by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm still wonder why I'd ever want to use Atom.
    Sure, it has some nice things in it, but it's still nowhere even remotely close to other programmers' editors.
    Nor does it seem to offer anything that could significantly improve on those editors or that would be in any way harder to implement on those editors.
    What is so special about Atom and why are Github pushing it so much?

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  2. Re:Not really open source by sanf780 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought it was Atom RSS, that by the way, is still at v1.0.