Atom 0.208.0 brings new changes and optimizations.
Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.
The latest version available is Atom 0.208.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:
- Atom now opens files larger than 2MB with syntax highlighting, soft wrap, and folds disabled. We’ll work on raising the limits with these features enabled moving forward
- Double-clicking a file in the Tree View now makes it a permanent tab when using preview tabs
- The Symbols View now automatically scrolls to the function in the editor as you move between functions in the list
- Optimizations to editor rendering in 0.206.0 disabled sub-pixel anti-aliasing. It has been restored in this release.
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Installation instructions:
While there is no official Atom repository or PPA, there is a third party one, containing the latest versions of Atom, as it gets updated.
The below instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.2 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
If you are not happy with Atom and want to uninstall it, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove atom
