Atom 1.34
January 8, 2019 jasonrudolph
Atom 1.34 is out! With this release, you’ll enjoy a host of enhancements to help you craft the perfect commit, including a faster diff view, the ability to preview all staged changes, and support for commit message templates.
Commit Previews
Are you the conscientious sort, who loves to double check the specific changes that are going into each commit? When crafting commit messages, do you have a desire to draw inspiration from the diff of your staged changes? If so, you’re going to love the commit preview feature. Just click the “See All Staged Changes” button above the commit message box, and you’ll see all of your staged changes in a single pane.
Improved Diffs
Calling performance enthusiasts: the GitHub package now renders diff views with a TextEditor
. TextEditor
offers many performance enhancements, allowing us to render large diffs faster. Furthermore, your text editor key bindings now work in diffs.
Commit Message Templates
Thanks to community contributor @gauravchl, Atom now supports commit message templates. You can add a template on a per-project basis or globally through your git configuration. The template text will then appear in the commit input box within Atom.
Community Contribution Highlights
When editing markdown code blocks, the Kotlin language now has syntax highlighting. Thanks @radixdev for your first-time contribution to Atom.
Long time volunteer maintainer @50Wliu fixed a nasty bug where package searches from the settings view were throwing uncaught exceptions.
Thanks to first-time contributor @edahlseng, you can now collapse all directories in the tree view even if nothing is selected.
Don’t forget to check out all the other improvements shipping with Atom 1.34 in the release notes!
Atom 1.35 Beta
With Atom 1.35 Beta comes quick access to details for recent commits, ability to view the full diff for pull requests directly within Atom, and a variety of enhancements and stability improvements.
Commit Details
Have you ever committed some changes, had a brain fart, and then thought to yourself “what the heck did I just write?” Worry not — now you can more easily perform code archaeology in the comfort of your editor. The GitHub package now supports viewing the contents of any commit in a pane. To try it out, you can either click on a commit in the “Recent Commits” view, or you can use the command palette (github:open-commit
) and input the SHA of any commit in the current repository. Good news for keyboard users, too: the recent commits view now supports keyboard navigation.
Pull Request Diffs
The GitHub pull request view has a new tab that shows all files changed in that pull request. It allows users to view pull requests diffs without context switching to GitHub.com, and brings us one step closer to code review in the editor.
Community Contribution Highlights
Do you love trying to log in when you can’t see what you’re typing? Neither do we! Props to community contributor @ericcornelissen for adding the ability to show and hide password text in the SSH password field.
There are many more details in the release notes.
Get all these improvements today by joining the Atom Beta Channel!