Atom

[MarcoPixel]

Here's a screenshot of Atom with the language-rainmeter syntax installed on the default theme.

[jsmorley]

Ok, cleaned things up a bit and added Atom.

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

[~Faradey~]

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.

[CyberTheWorm]

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.

[raiguard]

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.

[MarcoPixel]

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/

[jsmorley]

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

Code: Select all

[\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.

[MarcoPixel]

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.

[jsmorley]

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.

[raiguard]

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?