Yes.

I may have found my One True OS X Text Editor: Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies. Like other desktop apps, it has its own icon in the dock, native menus and dialogs, and full access to the file system.

Open the dev tools, however, and Atom's web-based core shines through. Whether you're tweaking the look of Atom's interface with CSS or adding major features with HTML and JavaScript, it's never been easier to take control of your editor.

OS X only for now. They're gonna have versions for Windows (and Linux?) eventually.

I do need to give Atom another try.

So far nothing has wooed me away from TextMate. And surprisingly, TextMate 2 seems to be a real thing now.

Oooh, good to know, thanks.

I may check out Atom again -- I looked at it during the invite-only period, and it looked slick but not like anything I was going to get any actual work done with. (But it was also very obviously early stages, so that wasn't much of a surprise.)

Why do they trump Sublime Text 2? Apart from the inability to count words, I'm really happy with it (and its licensing model).

I should check how much an upgrade to 3 costs. That has a word count plugin.

For me it's TextMate's language-agnostic plugin system. For some reason I really hate writing in Python and that's required for Sublime.

I just discovered Swype does handwriting recognition, and it's AWFUL. I'm not sure how they think letter-by-letter is compatible with at least the other two keyboards I've seen out there. Their suggestions are top notch, which is the only reason I'm still experimenting with settings, but SHIT.

They unlocked the phone I deliberately bought unlocked (Germany, if memory serves) and now my sister is on Android. She pays through the nose for data minutes--do you guys have any recommendations about firewall apps, or other ways to keep it under control.

My Mom is thinking of getting this for very light web browsing and listening to Democracy Now. [link] . Any minuses for this? Is this a good deal. She has a $100 Amazon gift card, I'll put in $50, and she will put in $50.

Another possibility. Instead of the Chromebook for 200, there is this no-name android 10 inch for 150. Worse screen, but apparently fast intenet connection.