Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor

On December 15 GitHub declared end-of-life for its "hackable text editor" Atom. But Long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM wants to remind everyone that after the announcement of Atom's sunset, "the community came together to keep Atom alive."

First there was the longstanding fork Atom-Community. But "due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar."

From the Pulsar web site: Pulsar [sometimes referred to as Pulsar-Edit] aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features.

With many new features on the roadmap, once Pulsar is stable, it will be a true, Community-Based, Hackable, Text Editor.
"Of course, the user interface is much of the same," writes the blog Its FOSS, and it's cross-platform (supporting Linux, macOS, and Windows).

"The essentials seem to be there with the documentation, packages, and features like the ability to install packages from Git repositories..."

Re:

[ChunderDownunder]

Can't you transpile webGL/HTML5/CSS/JS to emacs lisp via WASM?

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[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Easiest way to do it:

In your bash session:

alias pulsar=\vim
~/> pulsar file.txt

And you're done.

How to run this inside Emacs (haar)

[Mirnotoriety]

anon [slashdot.org]: “I'd love to edit my files with Atom/Pulsar, but I just don't know how to run this inside Emacs.”

Haar :)

Corporate sabotages Office Productivity

[Canberra1]

Macro's were a huge thing in increasing productivity and office automation - if you had an ounce of skill. Many promotions were won over better qualified candidates. Then Microsoft was at the forefront of killing off 'dangerous macros' because they might remember or autocomplete passwords or an off the books email address. There was a big fight with MS text editor Vs Open source, and money was not an issue. Anyway I am done with employers wanting me to amplify finger lock and RSI. I got a good 'package' and

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[bill_mcgonigle]

> and was told sternely 'No such thing as RSI'

They could tell you sternly 'you have three feet' but emotion has nothing to do with reality.

If you're injured file a workman's comp claim *with* a proper physician's endorsement. We will assume here that you are conscientious about avoiding reinjury.

A stern endorsement, if they must, but if your employer is asshoe don't gift them a part of your limited life.

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[Canberra1]

They paid for some physio. They paid for a standup desk and breaks. They got a letter from the Physio to install a a keyboard macro software to go with the special keyboard to avoid tab tab entry on an emulated mainframe screen. Security told them I could not have macros due to policy - but I worked in security and had a computer degree. They used weasel words like, not RSI but overuse syndrome. So I shelled out for a real specialist and opted for an operation. So real quick, they gave me a redundancy pac

Aims to "reach feature parity"?

[93 Escort Wagon]

Is it a fork, or isn't it? If it's a fork, and the original software is being sunsetted, shouldn't it have feature parity from the get-go?

I thought maybe they'd changed the license somewhere down the line... but nope, it's still the MIT license.

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[dfghjk]

That's what I noticed, that their goal is feature parity with the project they forked (that is no longer developed). LOL

Remember when installing a package was what you did to get a text editor, not a feature supported by your text editor?

Re: Aims to "reach feature parity"?

[MNNorske]

Their website notes that automatic updates and the package repository are works in progress. I would guess these are the features they are aiming to gain parity on.

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[tudza]

I liked Atom. I didn't use very much of what was available, but it had what I wanted. I tried putting the packages I used in Atom into Pulsar. They didn't work. I got VS Code to do what I was using Atom for. Took more fiddling about that I remembered having to do in Atom, but it works fine.

Don't worry ...

[fahrbot-bot]

There are probably Emacs emulation modes for these. :-)

Re: Le sigh

[greytree]

The word is "dumdums", ya ... etc.

Oh gee golly

[Osgeld]

Let me just wait for a fork of a project to catch up with its dead source project...just to have a text editor that no one has heard of, and even less give a single flying rats ass fuck about

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[SQLGuru]

A lot of people have heard of Atom. There are even Atom keybindings in VS Code. But, given the popularity of VS Code, I'm surprised someone is trying to keep Atom alive. I'm sure that was a factor in why they ended development of Atom.

Pathetic

[Aighearach]

How buggy must it be if it developers have to "come together to keep it alive?"

If you install a 20 year old linux distro... vim and emacs both still work. Nothing has to be done to "keep them alive" because... they're just software.

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[narcc]

Software is pretty bad these days. With modern development practices, it's amazing that anything works at all.

Re: Pathetic

[tchetch]

Not long ago, I heard a group of dev, they looked quite young, and the discussion was like "I had to use another IDE and could not compile my software because there was no run button I could find".

Atom? Pulsar? What are these weird things?

[russotto]

Just use ed, it's the standard editor. It's not hackable, it doesn't need to be hackable, it already does everything you need an editor to do, and that's edit.

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[JustAnotherOldGuy]

nano for ever, period, end of story.

Too late

[coofercat]

I used to use Atom because it did what I wanted (mostly) and didn't do a load of stuff I don't need. I don't need a full-blown IDE for 99% of my life, so Atom filled the bill very nicely.

Then I tried to work with a Vue project, which used Prettier. Like all things Javascript/Nodejs related, it's a ball ache, and Atom has a circular sort of journey to try to get Prettier to work inside Atom. It's then I found that most of it has been discontinued.

I've since switched to VS Code. I know I've sold out to the de