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Posted by jaslar
Jan 24, 2018 at 05:08 AM
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>Hope you have a powerful computer. Atom is pretty much the poster-child
>for avoiding Electron apps for performance reasons….
Not really. An old Acer Windows 7 laptop. But it installed, really easy to download packages.
It actually does wind up offering something like Editorial, with a few oddities. For instance, I can cycle through levels (folding) by putting the cursor at the beginning of #Header 1 and hitting tab. That’s org-mode. Similarly, a couple of quick clicks on the tool bar, and you can move forward and back by header.
There’s a word count plug in, and a taskpaper plugin. All install quickly, and take effect instantly.
As it is designed for programming, I couldn’t see an easy way to turn off line numbers. On the other hand, the line numbers kind of disappear (I don’t notice them after a while), or I could use them to hop around the file via a “go to line” keyboard shortcut.
Another command I like: Ctrl-UP/DOWN moves the paragraph.
All in all, it was a pleasant enough writing environment, with a project folder (opens up a file directlory), multiple tabs, and spell check. It is BIG though. 130 megs? And to be fair, I didn’t try it on a huge file. But you have to admire the up-to-date power, the well-designed plugins, and the cost!
Posted by doablesoftware
Apr 7, 2018 at 12:18 AM
how’s atom with the FoldingText extension/package thing?
is it highly capable at this point?
Posted by jaslar
Apr 7, 2018 at 03:25 PM
I used it for a couple of nights, and the folding text and taskpaper modes worked pretty well. But maybe one of the first commenters here got it right, it does seem kind of sluggish, and I’ve had it crash a few times. So maybe I do need a more powerful computer.
Posted by doablesoftware
Apr 7, 2018 at 09:36 PM
well this was 2015,
last updated 2016
https://github.com/FoldingText/foldingtext-for-atom
https://atom.io/packages/foldingtext-for-atom
basically dead