I once installed Atom but when I realized that it was eating me 200 Mb of 
RAM without even a file loaded I uninstalled it right away. I'm not buying  
(expensive) laptop RAM to be wasted that way.

Sábado, 29 de Novembro de 2014 12:59:31 UTC, Hans W Borchers escreveu:
>
> One thing I need quite often is the "block selection mode".
> For instance adding the same characters in front of several lines, or 
> deleting or adding commas in all lines of a data table.
> I know how to do this with TextMate or Kate, but generally have 
> difficulties finding it in a new editor.
> For example how to do this with Atom, Sublime, or Brackets? Thanks.
>
>
> On Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:26:06 AM UTC+1, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>
>> Kate already has a lot of features, so maybe for you there is no reason 
>> to switch. Personally, for me, the main feature I would miss in Kate is 
>> multiple cursors. With Sublime Text (and Atom, LT, and Brackets) you can 
>> have multiple cursors so you can edit multiple lines of text at the same 
>> time. In my code, I often have several lines of text that look similar. For 
>> example:
>>
>>     const r_sun     = 695500.0KiloMeter; export r_sun    
>>     const r_jupiter =  69173.0KiloMeter; export r_jupiter
>>     const r_saturn  =  57316.0KiloMeter; export r_saturn 
>>     const r_neptune =  24553.0KiloMeter; export r_neptune
>>     const r_uranus  =  25266.0KiloMeter; export r_uranus 
>>     const r_earth   =   6367.4KiloMeter; export r_earth  
>>     const r_venus   =   6051.9KiloMeter; export r_venus  
>>     const r_mars    =   3388.5KiloMeter; export r_mars   
>>     const r_mercury =   2439.7KiloMeter; export r_mercury
>>     const r_pluto   =   1184.0KiloMeter; export r_pluto  
>>     const r_ceres   =    476.0KiloMeter; export r_ceres  
>>     const r_vesta   =    265.0KiloMeter; export r_vesta  
>>
>>
>> This is the physical radius of various solar system bodies. Suppose I 
>> also want to have the mass of these bodies (m_sun, m_jupiter, etc...). Then 
>> I have to replace "r_" with "m_" and KiloMeter with KiloGram in every line, 
>> and then change the numbers. I find it convenient to put the cursor on the 
>> first line, press Shift+Alt+Down eleven times and have 12 cursors going at 
>> the same time.
>>
>> I know that this is not a critical feature, but it is the feature I would 
>> miss the most if I moved to Kate. So it might be the best answer to your 
>> question.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 November 2014 at 07:38, K Leo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Just tried Atom.  It appears very good, but I am not sure what 
>>> advantages it has over Kate which is what I have been using?
>>>
>>> On 2014年11月29日 00:54, Pileas wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use Atom. It resembles so much with Sublime (maybe the same people 
>>>> work there).
>>>>
>>>> I tried Light Table. It is faster when it opens (this is a problem that 
>>>> Atom has so far: it is a little slow), but I find Atom easier to work 
>>>> with. 
>>>> Easy to install packages and themes. Supports many languages syntax 
>>>> (Fortran and Julia included).
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about Bracket.
>>>>
>>>> Τη Παρασκευή, 28 Νοεμβρίου 2014 11:39:43 π.μ. UTC-5, ο χρήστης Daniel 
>>>> Carrera έγραψε:
>>>>
>>>>     Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>     Can anyone here comment or share opinions on the newer text
>>>>     editors -- Atom, Light Table, Bracket -- that seem to be trying to
>>>>     supplant Sublime Text? A lot of the information you find online
>>>>     seems to be geared toward web development, but my interest is
>>>>     programming with Julia (and Fortran). That's why I asking for
>>>>     opinions on the Julia mailing list.
>>>>
>>>>     I currently use Sublime Text, and I am very happy with it. But I
>>>>     am curious about the others, since they seem to intentionally copy
>>>>     the most important features from Sublime Text. If you have
>>>>     experience with these editors and can tell me why you like one
>>>>     better than another, I would love to hear it.
>>>>
>>>>     Cheers,
>>>>     Daniel.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase 
>> that means it's not fun to do.
>>  
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