Today GitHub has updated its multiplatform code editor and open-source Atom to include enhancements such as asynchronous context menus, read-only editor, and automatic scrolling.
La Atom version 1.24 is now available for Linux, Windows and MacOS bringing with them the contextual menus to avoid the infinite loop when the secondary menu is opened, also now you can render and process while the contextual menu is being viewed, on the other hand, another API for LanguageMode has been added, scroll automatic when a file is displayed and read-only format.
Ash Wilson, Lead Developer for GitHub, has mentioned in the release notes that now you can add the read-only attribute, which will be useful when the user does not have to change any of the code, but still copy or highlight part of it.
Atom 1.25 in beta with many new features
As we expected, after launching the stable version 1.24, a new version in beta phase has been presented, this version has many new features, but the main ones are the folding code and an improved syntax highlighting.
Syntax selection by group in Atom 1.25
Atom 1.25 will also arrive with improvements for Python and HTML, a GitHub package that allows the user to see changes to symbolic links and file mode, in addition to several other internal performance improvements. Finally, it is worth mentioning that Electron will be updated to version 1.7.11.
You can download Atom for Linux directly from this link, if you want more details about the news that Atom 1.24 brings and the improvements that are in the test phase with Atom 1.25 you can visit the official changes page from this link for Atom 1.24 and from this other for Atom 1.25.
It is always important to remember not to use Atom 1.25 for your daily work, it is better to use the stable version if you are working with important code.
Atom 1.23 had problems with the use of the built-in terminal (platformio-ide-terminal or terminal-plus) .. I had to uninstall and install yaourt atom-editor-bin, in that version if it works fine .. hopefully they have fixed this in 1.24, the use of the terminal is very important.