Issue 1:
I run into this issue repeatedly. I know there are already a bunch of reports about this error message, but it's hard to tell what are duplicates because of all the variations. When I get this now it's paired with a second error:

Uncaught TypeError: Unable to watch path
Uncaught ReferenceError: spawnSync is not defined

(See bottom for detailed version.)

The details about my situation:

Atom (currently 0.153.0), no packages installed, running on Windows 7 x64.

Atom will run fine for some amount of time, then I try to open a file and get this error. It doesn't seem to be related to renaming files, as in some of the other reports. At least sometimes I can still open a file in a different window. At least sometimes I can open a file in the same window with a different path. For example, I'm often loading files from a samba share running on Ubuntu 12, e.g.

\\server\share\somedir\somefile

When the problem strikes I don't seem to be able to load any more files from \\server\share\somedir in the same window. But if I map a drive to the same share, I seem to be able to load files from there, e.g.:

Z:\somedir\somefile

I've already tried setting fs.inotify.max_user_watches to 32768 (on the Ubuntu system) as suggested in #2082 and the problem persists.

Uncaught TypeError: Unable to watch path c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\main.js:66
HandleWatcher.start c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\main.js:66
HandleWatcher c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\main.js:30
PathWatcher c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\main.js:120
exports.watch c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\main.js:179
module.exports.File.subscribeToNativeChangeEvents c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\file.js:364
module.exports.File.willAddSubscription c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\file.js:101
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\file.js:3
module.exports.File.onDidChange c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\pathwatcher\lib\file.js:85
module.exports.TextBuffer.subscribeToFile c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\text-buffer\lib\text-buffer.js:1085
module.exports.TextBuffer.setPath c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\text-buffer\lib\text-buffer.js:277
TextBuffer c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\text-buffer\lib\text-buffer.js:100
module.exports.Project.buildBuffer c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\project.js:463
module.exports.Project.bufferForPath c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\project.js:438
module.exports.Project.open c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\project.js:392
module.exports.Workspace.openUriInPane c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\workspace.js:482
module.exports.Workspace.open c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\workspace.js:409
_results.push._this.(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\delegato\lib\delegator.js:67
module.exports.TreeView.openSelectedEntry c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\tree-view\lib\tree-view.js:634
module.exports.TreeView.entryClicked c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\tree-view\lib\tree-view.js:378
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\tree-view\lib\tree-view.js:156
handler c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\space-pen-extensions.js:112
jQuery.event.dispatch c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\space-pen\vendor\jquery.js:4681
elemData.handle c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\space-pen\vendor\jquery.js:4359

Uncaught ReferenceError: spawnSync is not defined c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:278
NotificationElement.winVersionText c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:278
NotificationElement.getOSMarketingVersion c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:249
NotificationElement.getIssueBody c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:183
NotificationElement.getIssueUrl c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:164
NotificationElement.generateMarkup c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:83
NotificationElement.initialize c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\notification-elemen…:29
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\main.js:15
module.exports.ViewRegistry.createView c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\view-registry.js:61
module.exports.ViewRegistry.getView c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\view-registry.js:43
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\main.js:29
module.exports.Emitter.emit c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\event-kit\lib\emitter.js:82
module.exports.NotificationManager.addNotification c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\notification-manager.js:54
module.exports.NotificationManager.addFatalError c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\notification-manager.js:45
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\notifications\lib\main.js:43
module.exports.Emitter.emit c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\node_modules\event-kit\lib\emitter.js:82
(anonymous function) c:\Program Files (x86)\GitHub Atom\resources\app\src\atom.js:221

Issue 2:
Search / Find in project cmd+shift+f do not searches in .gitignore files

Actually a nice feature but, sometimes its really necessary to search code in ignored files.

At least there should be provision in "Finding with Options"