[xubuntu-users] Recommendations For A Great Text Editor?

[Eric Christopherson]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014, Ince, Wilbur wrote:
> Abandoned is maybe not the right word.  Active development has stopped on
> the project.

http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev makes it look like build 3066 was
released a couple months ago.

> Blog entries from June and July promise a new round of work
> on the version 3 beta release, but since that time not a bit of updates or
> blog entries from anyone.

Where are those entries? I don't see anything at
http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/ since December *2013* -- that does seem
like a bad sign.

> 
> It's troubling because a lot of people (including me) are actively using
> it, and developing plugin packages for it.
> 
> One important note about Sublime Text is that it is NOT open source.  Since
> it's hiatus started, two projects have sprung up to take it's place.
> 
> Lime Text
> Atom
> 
> I can't tell which project is more populace, but Atom seems more accepted.
> Neither have unseated Sublime at this point, but we can all change that.
> 
> I'm installing Atom now and am giving it a rundown.  I'll let people know
> how it goes.
> 
> Wilbur Ince
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Eric Christopherson <
> echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014, Sajan Parikh wrote:
> > > On 12/08/2014 07:29 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > >Sublime Text (gtk2), Pluma (gtk2), Kate (Qt, needs KDE dependencies),
> > > >so I recommend to test Sublime Text and Pluma.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I live by SublimeText 3.  It's an absolute godsend.
> > >
> > > While the current version of ST3 works and is pretty much bug free on
> > Linux,
> > > the developer has apparentally abandoned it.  Although, I believe there
> > is
> > > still someone managing the licenses and basic support.
> >
> > Where did you get the idea it was abandoned?
> >
> > >
> > > The new alternative to SublimeText refugees is Github's Atom editor,
> > which
> > > works on Linux great and is extremely powerful.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson