GitHub's Atom Hackable Text Editor Gets Performance, Responsiveness Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GitHub released a new stable version of their open-source and cross-platform Atom hackable text editor with a bunch of enhancements, bug fixes, a new Electron version, as well as performance and responsiveness improvements.

Atom 1.25 is now available for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms, and it is packed with improvements for the GitHub package to let you stage and view changes affecting file mode modifications, additions to symbolic links, as well as the ability for the Diff view to no longer reset its scrolling position.

“There is also a new configuration setting that controls whether or not commit messages composed within the mini editor are hard-wrapped to 72 columns. Commit messages composed in a full-pane editor continue to be preserved as-is,” said David Wilson, Atom developer at GitHub, in the release notes.

The Atom 1.25 release also improves support for the Python and HTML languages by im… (read more)

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