I've just tried the atom.io editor.

I did this because there was to be a talk about it at the Portsmouth LUG, which I went to last Saturday.

It's totally inaccessible on Linux, Debian with the Mate desktop.

Apparently it is an editor written in Javascript and, if I have this correct, it renders the screen with the Chrome browser, or sub-system. There's also something called node.js involved.

These are technologies I know little about, except that it doesn't make a sound with Orca.

So there's another editor we can't use.

Back to good old Emacs.