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Here's a screenshot of Atom with the language-rainmeter syntax installed on the default theme.
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Ok, cleaned things up a bit and added Atom.

https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/notepad-alternatives/
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Re: Atom

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this question is to Atom users:
i wonder if this problem https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22856&p=120610#p120610 still exists. :)
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DannysNotHere wrote:I think that they should add the text editor Atom to the Notepad alternatives due to its useful and free nature.
Thanks for this, I have always used Notepad++ but I'm starting to like this more and more.
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CyberTheWorm wrote:Thanks for this, I have always used Notepad++ but I'm starting to like this more and more.
I used Atom for around a year and loved it. However, I began to run into performance issues that I could not solve, so I switched to Sublime Text. In my opinion Sublime is infinitely better in almost every way, and runs extremely quick and smooth. And despite it having a “limited trial”, you can actually use the trial indefinitely without having to pay.

So I would recommend Sublime over Atom, but both are great editors.
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Re: Atom

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~Faradey~ wrote:this question is to Atom users:
i wonder if this problem https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22856&p=120610#p120610 still exists. :)
File encoding isn't an issue anymore because Rainmeter supports Character variables which are essentially small strings which represent an symbol.

For example, if you want to use the degrees symbol (°) you can use

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[\x00B0]
regardless of the encoding of the file.

Read more about Character variables here: https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/variables/character-variables/
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Re: Atom

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MarcoPixel wrote:File encoding isn't an issue anymore because Rainmeter supports Character variables which are essentially small strings which represent an symbol.

For example, if you want to use the degrees symbol (°) you can use

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[\x00B0]
regardless of the encoding of the file.

Read more about Character variables here: https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/variables/character-variables/
File encoding is still important in Rainmeter and Lua, so any good text editor needs to make it easy to deal with that.
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jsmorley wrote:File encoding is still important in Rainmeter and Lua, so any good text editor needs to make it easy to deal with that.
I think with UTF-8 as default, it won't be that big of an issue.

At least they are working on auto-detection directly built into Atom and i'll hope they manage to put this feature into the next version.
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MarcoPixel wrote:I think with UTF-8 as default, it won't be that big of an issue.

At least they are working on auto-detection directly built into Atom and i'll hope they manage to put this feature into the next version.
UTF-8 is no good for Rainmeter skins at all.
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jsmorley wrote:UTF-8 is no good for Rainmeter skins at all.
I converted all my skins back to UTF-8 once CR variables became a thing. It makes the files smaller, and it plays nicer with GitHub (GitHub can’t compare code changes in UTF-16 LE files for some reason).

Is there some overarching reason why using UTF-8 is a bad idea?
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