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Atom

Atom is an open-source graphical text editor written in web languages (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and CoffeeScript), developed by GitHub and built on the Electron framework. Electron is essentially a form of the Chromium web browser that has been modified specifically so that it can function as a backbone for non-web browser apps that are written in web languages like the text editor, Atom. Atom is extensible (using extensions written in JavaScript or CoffeeScript, or a combination of the two), cross-platform (running on the three major desktop operating systems — Linux, macOS and Windows), yet beginner-friendly. Its chief disadvantages are that it is not available from the command-line, uses a comparatively large amount of system resources (including RAM) and takes a relatively long time to load upon startup. The Atom version in the Funtoo tree tends to become out-of-date rather quickly, as the ebuild for it is rather complicated to update. On Funtoo Atom is only available, officially (from the Funtoo tree) for 64-bit systems. Those that want the very latest Atom, should consider using the app-editors/atom-bin ebuild, which is presently only available from unofficial overlays, details of which overlays one can install it from can be found here, instead. An example overlay that provides this package is sabayon-tools, to install app-editors/atom-bin from this overlay run:
root # layman -a sabayon-tools root # emerge app-editors/atom-bin
if one has never run layman on your present Funtoo system run:
root # layman -L
in order to fetch the Layman remote list.