On: Atom text editor 1.4 released

[bhaak]

When I tried it last time, maybe a year ago, I was quickly turned off by how uncustomisable it was, despite the claims.

All I wanted was a non-blinking block cursor ...

Now I just found this https://github.com/olmokramer/atom-block-cursor

But more than 200 commits to support non-blinking block cursors? I think Atom is not for me.

[tokenizerrr → bhaak]

So many of those commits are "updated readme", "updated changelog" and stuff like that. Scrolling through the log it's not uncomming to find 5 or 6 "updated readme" commits right after each other in that repository.

It's not a good metric. Instead look at the 278 lines of code necessary to achieve it.

[krisdol → bhaak]

You really can't please some people.

[pvdebbe → bhaak]

:) I get you perfectly, but every exensible system usually has a couple of corners that are not that easily extended as indented. Design choices, tradeoffs or laziness usually involved.

[akerro → bhaak]

That's what happens when someone tries to write desktop application in JS :)