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		cnp on June 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom 1.0 I just timed it and it was less than 5 seconds. I would suggest giving 1.0 a spin before you judge.

rhodysurf on June 25, 2015 | [–]

Thats still a long time for a text editor though. Sublime, Vim, gedit, etc are all instantaneous.

bluepill on June 25, 2015 | [–]

On this MacBook Pro (MacBookPro12,1) i7(3,1GHz) 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD ... it takes less that 5 seconds which is way to long for me. If that's ok for you no worries, but you can't say it isn't slow.

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