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Pulsar Editor

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

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Chrome OS
  • BSD
  • Electron / Atom Shell
4.6 / 5 Avg rating (11)
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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.  Folder Hierarchy
  12.  Electron based
  13.  Support for MarkDown
  14.  Teletype
  15.  Dark Mode
  16. Git icon  Git Support
  17.  Full-Text Search
  18.  No Tracking
  19.  Code Formatting
  20.  Portable
  21.  Live Preview
  22.  Autocompletion
  23.  Syntax Highlighting
  24.  Command line interface
  25.  File Versioning
  26.  Fuzzy Finder
  27.  Unit Testing
  28.  Plugin manager
  29.  Package Control
  30.  Modular System
  31.  Multiple Cursors
  32.  Plugin API
  33. GitLab icon  Gitlab integration
  34.  Collaborative writing
  35. Node.js icon  Support for Node.js
  36.  Code Completion
  37.  Minimap
  38.  Separated workspaces

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Pulsar Editor information

  • Developed by

    Pulsar-Edit
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6 (11 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    71 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  3,422 Stars
  •  145 Forks
  •  264 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Pulsar Editor, and it has gotten 41 likes

Pulsar Editor was added to AlternativeTo by GuilleW on Nov 15, 2022 and this page was last updated Dec 13, 2022.

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WeiHua Liu
  
Top positive commentNov 4, 2024

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.

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WeiHua Liu
  
Positive commentNov 4, 2024

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.

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WeiHua Liu
  
Positive commentNov 4, 2024

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.

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Marc
  
Positive commentMar 27, 2024

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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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.

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