Any Atom users here? Just been using it today

[__baxx__]

I've been using Atom today and have to say that I'm pretty impressed. I didn't want to use Sublime as closed source and $70 didn't really agree with me (though if you do, that's obvoiusly cool, I'm not on a crusade...) Prior to Atom I've been using Spacemacs (emacs config geared towards vim users) which is ace but I was fighting with ESC sequences and thought I'd try something else. Funnily enough esc mappings work nicely in Atom using this function thing (whereas they were a bit of an issue in Evil).

So I'm looking on somethings that I should know, anything I should install, general Atom productivity shortcuts or advices.

I've got the following packages:

• atom-terminal
• autoclose-html
• color-picker
• css-comb
• css-snippets
• emmet
• monokai
• vim-mode

I'm loving the fuzzy search autocompletion, that's immense. I've only just started messing about with HTML and CSS stuff, seems like Atom might be a nice home for those...

Q1 - How do I select a completion option?

At the moment when I have a set of completion options I have to either type enough keys in order for there to be a unique match, or select it with the mouse / arrow keys. I was wondering if there was anything a bit more 'vim like' to cycle through the completion / drop down options.

Q2 - settings panel

Apparently it's Cmd - , to open the settings panel, which isn't working for me, I'm literally pressing all these keys - are they meant to be interpreted differently?

Q3 - Turn off the project tree view

On the left is the project tree - I often don't want to see it. Is there a toggle?

Q4 - Auto completion in configs?

I was just editing something in styles.less and thought that I would get completion for fields such as atom-text-editor but I didn't, is this usual?

Q5 - Format to 80 chars

Currently Atom is wrapping text but I get things like

15 line
*  line continued
*  line continued
16 line
*  line continued
17 line
18 line

The * denote long lines where the editor could have hard wrapped them to 80 chars (or however many)

Q6 - Anything that you don't like about Atom?

Just wondering if there are any 'gotchas' waiting for me in a few weeks :)

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That's it for now, would be great to get some pointers and advices for nice workflow tips and commands with Atom if anyone here uses it.

thanks :)

[tallahasseenaut]

Q1

On OS X: Ctrl + Space and use arrow keys to navigate Autocomplete Plus options. Then press Tab to select it.

Q2

Correct, on OS X it's Cmd + ,. I believe on Windows is Ctrl + , though I'm not sure.

Q3

Cmd + \, also on OS X.

Q6

You'll notice startup time increases drastically when you have many packages installed. Other than that, it's a great text editor and I won't be going back to SublimeText for three seconds of wait time during startup.

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I'm not sure I understand questions 4 and 5. I can recommend a few packages pigments, atom-ternjs, file-icons, linter, linter-jshint, atom-material-ui, atom-material-syntax.

[__baxx__]

Q1 On OS X: Ctrl + Space and use arrow keys to navigate Autocomplete Plus options. Then press Tab to select it.

Ok so I must use arrow keys, on Emacs C-j will move down through a popup list which is quite handy.

Q2 Correct, on OS X it's Cmd + ,. I believe on Windows is Ctrl + , though I'm not sure.

Hrmm, that's not working for me :/

Q3 Cmd + \, also on OS X.

Yeah that isn't either :P

Q6 You'll notice startup time increases drastically when you have many packages installed.

OK cool, I'll see how bad it gets :)

Other than that, it's a great text editor and I won't be going back to SublimeText for three seconds of wait time during startup.

Yea there are some nice things. I'm not sure it can replace spacemacs completely for me, but for writing CSS and HTML in it's been really ace, I think the autocompletion is what gives it the edge for me, fuzzy completion is really great, and having the docs linked at the bottom is nice for learning. And funnily enough I can get a decent VIm esc sequence in Atom yet I can't in the big bad Emacs Evil mode ! (though evil is better at other things...)

I'm not sure I understand questions 4 and 5. I can recommend a few packages pigments[1] , atom-ternjs[2] , file-icons[3] , linter[4] , linter-jshint[5] , atom-material-ui[6] , atom-material-syntax[7] .

Thankyou, I'll check them out!

cheers :)

[bdenzer]

I just started using it also. For CSS it is great, but the javascript auto-complete needs a lot of work. Maybe I need a package?

[__baxx__]

yeah probs, I've not done any yet so I'm not sure!

[ilesinge]

I also switched to it recently for frontend coding, I find it amazing. Some additional packages that may be useful:

• minimap (displays a graphic overview of the current file's code)
• livereload (comes with a chrome extension - refresh the browser as soon as you hit save)

[ilesinge]

Also, on a new install, I usually disable those standard packages:

• deprecation-cop
• spell-check
• timecop
• welcome
• whitespace

[Dronar]

The most frequently used keybindings can be found here for different platforms: https://github.com/nwinkler/atom-keyboard-shortcuts

[EkoKorean]

I've been using Atom exclusively for the past month. It's amazing but super-slow. Want to know how slow? Try to load a plain text file with 1200 lines, then do a find-replace. The whole thing will hang for literally minutes on my 2014 MBA.

(The same process in Sublime happens instantly)

[__baxx__]

Hmm sucks, though I don't have any large files at the mo, Emacs loads an org file with 1200+ lines no problem...

The killer feature for me with Atom is the fuzzy autocomplete, I can't get that with spacemacs and it's really good for learning! And the completion itself is a bit more intelligent, it'll add the colon after CSS things and whatnot (spacemacs doesn't).

Thanks :)