DAdanso·Jul 12, 2015
edit: I realize OP says that he admits all the Atom packages are ports from ST, and he isn't really arguing for Atom > ST, just that "I guess I just wanted to try something new and so far I'm quite happy with it"...I guess I was thrown off by one of his initial statements:
> Atom 1.0 will greet you with a nice splash screen on start. The first you will notice is that Atom is actually a lot more user friendly than Sublime Text.
...and then he proceeds to explain how you have to dig through two menus to enable the basic "Preview Tabs" menu.
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I appreciate the writeup but the OP doesn't seem to be experienced or knowledgable enough about ST to make a reliable judgment.
The very first feature he mentions is "Preview Tabs":
> Preview Tabs allow you to open files, have a look at the code and then open another file, whilst automatically closi
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ng the previous one, if no code changes have been applied.
Doesn't Sublime Text have this feature? You click on a file in a project and its name will appear italicized in a new tab, indicating that it's not quite open. Click on another file, and that new file will take the previous file's spot. Double click a file name and the tab title will no longer be italicized. What am I missing here? Even if ST didn't have this feature...this seems like a weak feature to start off a piece about why Atom is different/better than Sublime Text.
All of the plugins that OP mentions seem to already exist in ST. OK I can't say that for sure, since I haven't tried every single one, but this is what OP says about the Pigments plugin:
> Now this is actually something I never managed to do in Sublime Text, but in Atom it just works. Pigments pulls in the HEX, RGBa or HSL value and applies it as the background colour of your code. Great if you’re like me and can only tell the colours of two values, #000 and #fff…
This is a feature of the popular ColorHighlighter package (which also has a built-in color picker): https://github.com/Monnoroch/ColorHighlighter. ColorHiglighter does not highlight all colors by default, but perhaps OP didn't read the README where it says you can enable that feature in the standard Tools dropdown?