On 9/09/2015 1:55 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:11:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Hipster kids all seem to be using Atom which I must admit is very slick.
It's amazing what you can do with HTML and Javascript these days.
I'll check it out.
Unlike (apparently) gil, I'm not at all sure I fit the demographic, but I may
see how it copes with navigating a kernel source tree with ctags.
Like I need (yet) another editor - about as much as I need (yet) another
"language".
I'm with you mate! Changing your editor is like moving house.
It's an interesting test to see if Atom could handle the kernel. It uses
the C/C++ front ends from LLVM for parsing code for context assist which is
an excellent design. I've been very impressed with it. It also has a
very cool minimap plugin https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap which I
absolutely love. Writing plugins is easy because it's just Javascript or
Coffeescript which is much better than horrible lisp for emacs or
whatever vim uses. Of course, using Javascript means that there is
already a large community of coders knocking out useful plugins. It's
not good for large
text files though! It's a coders editor. It's basically chromium and
node.js at the core with plugins which appeals to the hipster hackers
that have the time and energy to get amongst it.
Shane ...
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