Atom 1.22 released. Install Atom Text Editor on Linux Ubuntu using the command “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom”. Atom is a desktop application built with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js integration. It runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies.
Atom 1.22
Atom 1.22 includes a number of fixes to performance and usability.
Performance improvements
Resolved a long-standing performance issue related to spawning Git processes to fetch Git status. This manifested in periodic pauses of Atom’s UI and we’ve seen a noticeably smoother experience. The autocomplete-plus default provider now computes suggestions natively and on a separate thread.
Usability enhancements
It’s now easier to find the bracket corresponding to the one under your cursor if you enable the new setting in the bracket-matcher package, which highlights the line number for the corresponding bracket:
Language package updates
Finally, there has been another raft of improvements to many bundled language grammar packages. Block comment handling has been improved in CoffeeScript and YAML. A major regex performance improvement has been made in the JavaScript grammar package. The HTML package has a number of fixes for improved tag tokenization.
Install Atom via WebUpd8 PPA
Run the command given below to install the latest Atom from WebUpd8 PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
Once installed, open Atom text editor from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.