Hi all,

today at the workshop,
one of the our Windows learners asked me why after quit nano the
previous command weren't available when scroll the window up.
The learner was very annoyed to not be able to see the history.

I would like to motion to change nano with Atom as the recommended/default
text editor for our workshops. I don't want to start yet another flame war,
we already had lots and lots of discussion about this,
so I will summarise the benefits and drawback of my proposal.
I will ask that before suggest another text editor instead of Atom,
stop and think that the text editor will benefit novice learners
instead of just make your life easy as instructor because you use X on
your daily work. (I don't use Atom!)

# Benefits

- Is open source.
- (Just) works in Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Easy to install in Windows, Mac and Linux.
- "All versions" are available to Windows, Mac and Linux.

  Some software, e.g. Skype, works in Windows, Mac and Linux but
  different versions are available to different OS.
- Configure PATH to be accessible from Git Bash.

  No need for extra configuration or our script to fix PATH.
- Well mantained and supported.
- Syntax highlight out of the box (AFAIK).
- Lots of plugins for learners that decide to keep using Atom.

  AFAIK there is a plugin that allow learners to use Atom
  to edit remote files, e.g. on clusters.
- Beautiful interface.

# Drawback

- Learners and instructions will need to switch windows.

# (My own) conclusions

Replace nano with Atom will avoid many of the our issues during the
workshop, such as "we will use nano but if you don't have nano you can
use X", and reduce the volunteer work that we need to maintain the
quality of our workshops. The price that we will need to pay is switch
windows during the workshop.

Thanks,
Raniere
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