Atom 1.9 Hackable Text Editor Out Now with Display Layers, Electron 0.37.8

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Atom hackable text editor has just gotten a new stable build today, August 1, 2016, version 1.9, which brings you the latest goodies the development teams has implemented since the public beta release two months ago.

Yes, that’s right, Atom 1.9 has been in development since June 6, 2016, when the stable Atom 1.8 release was announced, along with the first Beta of Atom 1.9. According to today’s release notes, there are quite a few nice features added to Atom 1.9 since then, such as more speed improvements thanks to the implementation of Display Layers.

The new Display Layers functionality should also enable support for free-form folds via the “Fold Selection” command, as well as to improve the soft-wrapping algorithm. Atom 1.9 also comes with a brand new, intuitive way of letting users organize the workspace, thanks to the implementation of drag and drop layout management.

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