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What features/packages have gotten you to switch over? What works or doesn't work? Is speed ever an issue?

No. It's currently much slower than Sublime Text, obviously has fewer features and plugins, and doesn't offer any benefits for my workflow.

Glad it's there, of course! From what I gather, it's substantially easier to develop for; I haven't really done any serious work on either of them, though.

Which Sublime version are you using?

Three; from what I understand there were substantial performance improvements in this release.

I've been using it for a few weeks now. It has been really enjoyable so far. I don't take advantage of all of its features, but my web development has been spot on.

What editor were you using previously, and what in Atom made you switch over?

I was using Aquamacs Emacs editor. I tend to like simple editors for coding at home. I use IntelliJ and VisualStudio for my day work. One major feature I enjoy is the multiple selections hotkey. I've been making some level designs and editing a 20x20 array can be slow.

That would've been very possible in Emacs. Oh well. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rec...

No.

Its Mac Only right now. can't try yet.

Used it for a few hours. It was slow, switched back to sublime.

I used it for a day or so, but it was just too slow and clunky compared to Sublime text. I'll come back to it in about 6 months and give it another shot.

No, I think text editors need to be open source. Too important to trust proprietary software with.

No, I might once I get deeper into JS though, if the VIM bundles don't satisfy me.

Been using it for several weeks. I prefer it slightly over ST2.

Not using it. Not sure what is the big deal.

Since it is Mac only, no.

emacs!

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