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The same type of gutter integration can also be had in Vim and Sublime Text:

https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

To get the rest of the git integration in Sublime Text, check out SublimeGit: https://sublimegit.net

Emacs supports it for many different vcs' http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/diff-hl.html

And magit is the best git integration I've seen so far: http://magit.github.io/

Sometimes I wonder how I used git before magit.

I'm recent to the party. I've discovered magit-blame-mode; any other goodies I might be missing out on?

Magit can do most common actions with one or 2 strokes, like `cc` for commit, `ca` for amend etc. Push, pull fetch etc work like a breeze and wont lock up emacs till its complete.

Sometimes I forget the keys, then I either enable menu bar mode to quickly look it up or switch to eshell for a while

Yeah, once I'm in magit-status, I type "g" for update, "fa" for fetch all, and if I need to commit, "S" to add all changes, C-u S to add all unstaged files, and using "n" and "p" to move through the list, I use "4" and "2" to toggle between showing/hiding changes per file (sometimes "3" if I want to see only part of a file's changes). When Im' done, I do "c" to type a commit message, and "cc" to commit. Often I need to fix a commit message typo, so "c" and "ca" lets me amend. Then I just type "PP" to push my changes! If I need to force-push because of an amended commit that I pushed 2 seconds ago, I'll do "P-fP". And interactive rebasing is really easy too, with "E". But yeah I've already gone on too long here.

The central part of magit is `magit-status'. You do most of the things from there. It even allows you to stage small parts of a diff (like git add -i) simply by selecting the part in the status view and staging it.

Gutter integration is nice, but actually seeing different folder/file colours helps too, which you can't do in Sublime.

Yeah, and that part is quite nice. It may even be more useful than the gutters within files. I have to admit, in this particular sub-area, Atom has clearly done better and made ST3 look bad in comparison. This is great because it shows improvement, and I'm all for making our tools better. (I mention this because it's the first time I see Atom actually excel over ST3.)

vim-signify[1] supports more VCSs (git, hg, bzr, svn, ...).

[1] https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify

Adobe Brackets, an actual free open-source editor, along with Brackets-Git (https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-git) does much of the same.

I really enjoy Brackets, but it is mainly targeting HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Atom seems to be more of a general editor.

This is sweet but totally expected as almost all the big text editors have it. Well done!

If you're coming from RubyMine and are used to the colors it uses for git integration, I've created an Atom UI package that ports RubyMine into Atom!

https://atom.io/packages/atom-darcula

If only there was a build for something other than OSX, so I could actually try it out...

Yeah (although I actually have OSX), that'd be nice.

Related to this, today I just discovered Brackets[1]. It also has some nice git features, like highlighting changed lines. Like Atom, it's written in HTML5. Unlike Atom, it's available on all platforms...because that's a really cool thing about HTML5.

[1] http://brackets.io/

Downloaded Brackets today, as I am really excited for the live web view. However, the live web view either showed wonky formatting or crashed. However, if I open the same index.html doc in Chrome, everything is fine. They say Bracket is updated every 2.5 weeks, so I hope the issue doesn't last too long.

I just downloaded brackets, but it won't let me use Firefox, it forces me to use Chrome, so no Brackets for me.

I got rid of Chrome months ago over NSA spying stuff. Not only does this not work in Firefox, but it won't work in Qupzilla (which is WebKit). I'll wait for a new version with better browser support.

hmmm, I had never heard of QupZilla, I am going to check it out.

Yup Chrome only. I believe they are working on more browsers.

Thanks for the tip, I will check it out

They stupidly used WebKit which has terrible Windows support. The linux support is okay, but still vastly behind the OSX support.

They need to jump ship to chromium in order to provide what they want to all 3 os's.

Just purely based upon what I've seen in the DMG package, you could pretty easily build your own version for Windows, or use it in Chrome with a couple of tweaks. They don't seem to use the C++ bindings a ton.

Atom is indeed based off of Chromium.

Article lost me at the first phrase:

'Have you ever used Atom...'

Thanks for asking but no I haven't because I'm still waiting for a $%#$#%ing invitation!

I would be happy to provide one if you give me your email!

Just dropped ya a note, if you're in Japan that is. I assume this means existing users can offer new users invites, though I could be mistaken. :-)

Edit: Ah I see, each new user also gets 3 invites after downloading it themselves: http://discuss.atom.io/t/had-an-invitation-but-cannot-access...

Mind sending one my way? Really wanna check it out.

Sorry, I'm already out. They seem to limit how many invites you get so you ultimately can't invite to get more invites ;-)

I know they're touting it as a feature, but it seems like a bit of a red flag that git integration is "built in." What if I don't like some behavior of the built-in plugin? Can I install a different one? Is there some reason it needs to be bundled? Is the plugin architecture not far-enough along that other VCS's can't be supported?

It is a plugin, just happens to be one of the bundled ones that's installed by default to provide a nice out-of-box experience. You can still disable it and install your own VCS plugin. One of the great things about Atom is that absolutely everything is a configurable plugin.

It's a plugin and the editor is made by GitHub. Did you expect them to not include Git support?

I really like the way a lot of the plugins are accompanied by gifs. Excellent way to see what the plugin does immediately.

By the way, if you're a developer who wants to try Atom, go ahead and ask someone on the HN invite tree:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7376063

Keep in mind that Atom is currently OSX only.

Wait, it's only OSX? Wow, I can't believe this! After all this hype, they didn't even release a *nix edition. They could have atleast mentioned it on their website.

Do you know why it's OSX only? Why didn't they code it multiplatform from scratch? I wish I could try it :/

I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.

Although, it's based off on Chromium. So, there's no need for much "polishing" since most of it is just HTML, CSS & JS.

There are a number of things: packages that use native modules, menu concerns, app packaging, etc.

I'd love to post in there, however HN doesn't seem to offer any private means of communication and I don't want to post my e-mail address in public if I can prevent it.

Understandable. A few options:

a) It doesn't have to be an email address you actually use: as far as I can tell, each invite just leads to a "connect your Github" and uses your GH email from that point on.

b) You can edit your post to erase your email afterwards, if you're comfortable with only having it up temporarily.

c) If you'd rather not do either of the above, you could directly email cschmidt (or someone else with invites left who lists their email in their profile).

Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.

I'm afraid I'm all out of invites now, for the rest of you HN folks.

Thanks!

I'm currently liking, not yet loving, Atom at work on a big Drupal site and building my first Angular project. I've wasted 3 days at home trying to get comfy with it in a Rails project. I don't think there's anything that compares to vim-rails in terms of intuitiveness, so I'll stick with vim for that.

If I could just get a note for note port of the Twilight theme for not-gui vim, I don't think I'd ever look back.

Does anyone know what they are using to record the screen and save it as a .gif?

Not sure what they use, but I use: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Below is the Google Chrome Extension I use. It is call Super Gif Capture:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-gif-capture/...

GifCam can do this and its free (Windows only):

http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21

Generally hubbers use QuickTime and gif brewery.

licecap

It would be fitting to have an equivalent of Fugitive's :Gbrowse to see a file on github and :Gblame to see the blame inline. Never understood why would your editor should be aware of git until I used that.

Yes! Gblame is fantastic. Xcode also has some pretty good git blame, git log, and version comparison support directly in the editor. I find that kind of thing fantastically useful for understanding why a section of code is the way it is.

The github package [1] does both of these, although the blame is done on GitHub instead of locally.

1: https://atom.io/packages/open-on-github

I was looking to see if Atom allows me to git add / git commit from the editor yesterday and I haven't found a way. That'd be good integration.

can we stop with the atom posts, please.

atom has built-in support for git? wait, no way!

This looks terrific and is absolutely what someone like me needs. I'm excited to see where the development of this editor would go next. It's like a breath of fresh air.

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