Atom - specialized text editor [discontinued]

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Re: Atom (specialized text editor)

#31 Post by lintalist »

webfork wrote:...try simultaneous editing...
MoonEdit has this feature https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=739 (website is offline, archive.org is offline as well at the moment so can't check for "archived" links, but for the time being alternative download links - direct linking won't work I think due to all the "adverts" that need to be shown I guess:
1 - en . softonic . com/download/moonedit/windows/post-download?sl=1
2 - www . netzwelt . de/download/11517-moonedit.html

Visual Studio Code https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums ... hp?p=82783 now has this as well see
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/201 ... live-share

Edit: working archive link, the exe is the same as the two alternatives above which I've now "disabled"
https://web.archive.org/web/20151017033 ... esetup.exe

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Re: Atom (specialized text editor)

#32 Post by webfork »

lintalist wrote:MoonEdit has this feature
Thanks for the suggestions. Very good to know.

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Re: Atom (specialized text editor)

#33 Post by webfork »

Given that the portable version of Atom we're listing is now over a year old, I started digging into a possible way to make the official version portable. Here are the steps I tried to make it work, so far no luck.
  1. Scroll down to the Latest Release box (in green) and download the zip version for your operating system (either atom-windows.zip or atom-x64-windows.zip for 64-bit).
  2. Extract the Atom folder to a folder of your choice
  3. Download the atom.zip folder and extract it's contents to the application folder ( .atom folder should be in the same location as atom.exe)
  4. Launch atom.exe
  5. When prompted to register as default atom:// URI handler, select No, Never
The ZIP file is attached to this entry. It's literally an empty folder because it's non-simple to generate a folder starting with a period in explorer.

Status: not portable, still insists on writing to \Users\USERNAME\.atom

Source: chasing multiple links on https://discuss.atom.io/t/atom-portable-version/46494
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Re: Atom (specialized text editor)

#34 Post by webfork »

Old thread update: Atom has unfortunately been discontinued in favor of Visual Studio Code by Github:

Official: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
Background: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/06/09/githu ... -december/

In other words, the various issues with portability around this topic are unlikely to get resolved. I have added a note to the thread name.

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