One good reason to use Light Table is that it has pretty good support for using Julia interactively. Things like eval'ing the current code block in the editor, highlighting and linking to lines that cause errors, support for eval in modules, inline Gadfly plots etc. See here <http://junolab.org/> if you're interested. Plus, no one else supports highlighting for string interpolation, so far as I know ;)
The downside of LT is that it really lacks the maturity and familiarity and Sublime, Atom and friends. If you're used to really powerful text editing features you'll have to relearn some tools and forgo others. For some the tradeoff here is worthwhile, for some not; personally, going without it (and back to reloading modules in the terminal) feels a lot like banging rocks together, but YMMV. It's a shame the Atom developers didn't opt to use CodeMirror – for one thing it supports files > 2mb just fine, and for another we could have implemented Juno on top of it. But there you go. Massive disclaimer: I wrote Julia's LT integration so I'm not exactly unbiased. (PS Hans: You can do block selection in LT by dragging with the alt key) On 29 November 2014 at 14:27, Pileas <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Daniel. I agree with you. I use Atom as my main editor and I am quite > happy. > > With each release it becomes better and I am sure that it will approach > Sublime's speed once it matures a little bit more. I am sure that people > who worked with Sublime Text work in Atom now. And it appears to me that > there are no new releases for Sublime (as far as I know). > > Best, > "Pileas" > > Τη Σάββατο, 29 Νοεμβρίου 2014 4:14:17 π.μ. UTC-5, ο χρήστης Daniel Carrera > έγραψε: >> >> Hi Pileas, >> >> Ok. So I installed Atom and I have now spent several hours playing with >> it. I am impressed, and I like it. I did hit an issue with font sizes which >> took a lot of effort to resolve. But moving past that, I think Atom will >> replace Sublime Text on my desktop. It has a similar look & feel >> (especially for me: multiple cursors and minimap) but I find Atom easier to >> configure, and I find it easier to discover new features. Atom already >> gives me several features that I do not currently have with Sublime: >> >> 1) Syntax highlighting for Julia and both modern Fortran and old Fortran. >> I actually need both. I use two different codes for my simulations. One is >> in F95 and the other is F77. Sublime gives me ZERO syntax highlighting for >> F77, which actually when I need it the most because F77 is quite difficult >> to read. >> >> 2) Spell checking, including spell check inside LaTeX files. I'm sure >> there is a way to get this in Sublime, but the fact that I do not yet have >> it at least indicates that the feature was less discoverable in Sublime >> than in Atom. >> >> >> So I'm happy. I am still exploring Atom, but I think it has already >> replaced Sublime for me. >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel. >> >> >> >> On 28 November 2014 at 17:54, Pileas <[email protected]> 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. >> >
