Atom 1.22 Hackable Text Editor Introduces Performance and Usability Improvements

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GitHub updated their open-source and cross-platform Atom hackable text editor to version 1.22, a monthly bugfix release that promises to add an extra layer of performance and usability improvements.

Atom 1.22 is here to address a long-standing performance issue for those who work with large projects. The issue was related to the spawning of Git processes that fetch the Git status, and it would apparently occur at times.

Additionally, Atom 1.22 updates the autocomplete-plus default provider to compute suggestions natively, as well as on a standalone thread, and makes it easier for users to find the bracket that corresponds to the one located under your mouse cursor.

“It’s now easier to find the bracket corresponding to the one under your cursor if you enable the new setting in the bracket-matcher package, which highlights the line number for the corresponding bracket,” said Katrina Uychaco in the release annou… (read more)

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