14 DAY TRIAL // GitHub updated today its open-source and cross-platform Atom hackable text editor app to add asynchronous context menus, read-only TextEditors, and automatic scrolling on unfolding and folding.
Atom 1.24 is now available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, bringing asynchronous context menus to no longer lock up the even loop on right-click and allow other rendering and processing operations to occur when the context menu is displayed, a new LanguageMode API, automatic scrolling when folding or unfolding, and read-only TextEditors.
"Packages can apply a read-only attribute to TextEditors to disable input," says Ash Wilson in the release notes. "This is useful when you wish to display code with syntax highlighting and allow copying to the clipboard, but it doesn’t make sense for the user to be able to change it, for example because it’s code in your git history or it isn’t on your local drive."
Atom 1.25 enters beta with code folding and improved syntax highlighting
As expected with a new stable release of its Atom hackable text editor, GitHub also pushes the next version into beta stages of development. As such, Atom 1.25 beta is also available to download today allowing users to test drive upcoming features like code folding and improved syntax highlighting.
Atom 1.25 will also bring improvements to the Python and HTML languages, a GitHub package that lets users stage and view changes to symbolic links and file mode, as well as various other performance and responsiveness enhancements. On top of that, there will be an Electron upgrade to version 1.7.11 too.
You can download Atom 1.24 and 1.25 beta for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows right now through our web portal and update your installations as soon as possible. More details about the changes implemented in Atom 1.24 and Atom 1.25 beta can be found in the official changelogs here and here.
