A couple of days ago, we were in for a great surprise: we saw the release of Atom 1.8, a new milestone of GitHub’s open-source, cross-platform and powerful hackable text editor, bringing various new features and many bug fixes.
Atom 1.8 entered the Beta channel a couple of months ago, on April 12, 2016. It was also then when the 1.7 update of the hackable text editor hit the streets with features like support for opening and managing files from the Tree View, the ability to add project folders from the command-line, crash recovery support, and async Git support.
A month ago, on May 6, the Atom editor celebrated two years of being an Open Source project. Now, the Atom 1.8 release is here, implementing the ability to move selected text left or right, which users can access via the Alt+Shift+Left and Alt+Shift+Right keyboard shortcuts (have a look at the gif below to see it in action).
Another interesting change implemented in Atom 1.8 is called better environment ha… (read more)
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