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Pulsar Editor

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Chrome OS
  • BSD
  • Electron
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Features

Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  Clean design
  3.  Support for Themes
  4.  Distraction-free
  5.  Lightweight
  6.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  2.  Community-based
  3.  Hackable
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Multiple languages
  7.  Add-ons
  8.  Tabbed interface
  9. GitHub icon  GitHub Integration
  10.  Ad-free
  11.  Teletype
  12.  Support for MarkDown
  13.  Dark Mode
  14.  Folder Hierarchy
  15. Git icon  Git Support
  16.  Live Preview
  17.  Portable
  18.  Autocompletion
  19.  Syntax Highlighting
  20.  Full-Text Search
  21.  No Tracking
  22.  Code Formatting
  23.  File Versioning
  24.  Command line interface
  25.  Electron based
  26.  Fuzzy Finder
  27.  Unit Testing
  28.  Plugin manager
  29.  Package Control
  30.  Modular System
  31.  Collaborative writing
  32.  Plugin API
  33.  Code Snippets
  34. GitLab icon  Gitlab integration
  35.  Multiple Cursors
  36. Node.js icon  Support for Node.js
  37.  Code Completion
  38.  Minimap
  39.  Separated workspaces

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Top Positive Comment
WeiHua Liu
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The Pulsar text editor is a community-led project that emerged as a fork of the Atom code editor, which was officially discontinued in December 2022. Pulsar is built on the Electron framework, utilizing the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which may contribute to its performance being slightly slower compared to native applications. Despite this, Pulsar offers a range of features such as smart autocompletion, a built-in package manager, and the ability to work across different operating systems. The discontinuation of Atom has indeed affected the update cycle of many plugins; however, Pulsar's active community is working to provide alternatives and maintain the editor's ecosystem.

Marc
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It's great, that the awesome Atom Editor is not left dead without a revival. I always loved Atom for being simple yet powerful. This is a great code editor and I generally like it more than vscode, although there are not as many up-to-date extensions available (yet?)

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A list of code editors or extensions/plugins that support PowerShell — exclusively or with other languages, whether Desktop, Core, or both. Also, a small number of noteworthy form-building modules. The only real requirement is that the editors listed have, at minimum, PowerShell syntax highlighting & code folding out of the box. Anything further, debugging, some level of auto-complete (whether real-time and context sensitive or based on a predefined list of keywords), module and help creation, snippets, graphical tools, form designer, etc. are optional but preferred. A great resource — albeit not updated often enough, and which has more than a couple dead links or outdated resources — is the Awesome PowerShell list @ https://github.com/janikvonrotz/awesome-powershell The rough sorting is editors with 1st-class PowerShell support — i.e. editors that are either primarily built around PowerShell, or which support PowerShell with true IntelliSense-like code completion, whether natively or via an extension or plugin. Secondary is their depth and breadth of support. Third is their status — are they abandoned, or currently being developed and supported? For instance, I'd put Notepad++ above PowerGUI, even though the latter is fully meant for PowerShell, as despite Notepad++'s lack of true PowerShell support in any way beyond syntax highlighting and manual function definition lists for auto-complete, PowerGUI is far too outdated to be considered a viable option, and is more of a curiosity that you can still run... for now. Same goes for ISE, despite not being updated since TechNet was discontinued, but as it's a 1st-class product developed by Microsoft and despite many addons no longer working (at least without some searching and manual activation), it's a much more viable option in my opinion than Notepad++, unless you don't need features like IntelliSense, smart auto-completion, and the like. Your mileage may vary.
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What is Pulsar Editor?

Pulsar, or sometimes referred to as Pulsar-Edit is a new image of the beloved 'Hackable Text Editor' Atom icon Atom. After the announcement of Atom's sunset, the community came together to keep Atom alive via the longstanding fork Atom-Community. However, due to differences in long-term goals for the editor, a new version was born: Pulsar.

Pulsar aims to not only reach feature parity with the original Atom, but to bring Pulsar into the 21st century by updating the underlying architecture, and supporting modern features.

Pulsar is an open-source, Electron icon Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js) and offers the same editing experience across Mac, Windows and Linux desktops. Different from most editors, it uses that same technology for themes so the UI is highly configurable through HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

FEATURES

  • Same familiar workflow across platforms.
  • Built-in package manager.
  • File system browser.
  • Advanced find-and-replace that works across multiple files and folders.
  • Smart autocompletion.

Pulsar Editor information

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  •  4,160 Stars
  •  197 Forks
  •  330 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Pulsar Editor, and it has gotten 51 likes

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