I have been ignoring the Atom hype because "geeze a programmers editor written as a big blob of JavaScript on my desktop that sounds like a dumb idea".
Then I tried it and it's wonderful and magical.
Then I tried it and it's wonderful and magical.
Can't seem to select all my mail to archive though. I have a bunch of unread mail and I would want to batch read them all.
Also another thing I'm used to in that kind of app, is scroll further than the top limit to update the list.
We've actually considered adding this and just making it a no-op-- a placebo feature to help users transition.
Once Electron got it's footing, we migrated there. It's also easier for us to contribute upstream patches for things like touch events. (We launched swipe-to-archive a couple weeks ago.)
Atom is lagging behind Electron. It's still running on Electron v0.34.5 which was shipped in November of last year. They're trying to keep up, but the community of folks around Electron is growing fast.
If you're based in SF and interested in this, you should definitely check out the Bay Area Electron User Group: http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Electron-User-Group/
Then I tried it and was pretty much blown away on how nice it really is.
Being able to style whatever you want with css is handy too, though sometimes it's tough to figure out the right css selector to use.
* "Feels right". The ergonomics of the keyboard interaction Just Work for me.
* Excellent git integration (with plugins) which is frankly abnormal on editors that run on Windows as well as ix (or Windows at all - the git story on Windows is still pretty crappy).
Good plugin management and libraries of plugins.