Pulsar Editor

Name: Pulsar Editor
Rating: 4.7 (6 reviews)

51 likes

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

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application typeApplication types

Origin

United States

Platforms

Mac
Windows
Linux
Chrome OS
BSD
Electron

Alternatives

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Features

Properties

Customizable
Clean design
Support for Themes
Distraction-free
Lightweight
Privacy focused

Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Community-based
Hackable
Works Offline
No registration required
Multiple languages
Add-ons
Tabbed interface
GitHub Integration
Ad-free
Teletype
Support for MarkDown
Dark Mode
Folder Hierarchy
Git Support
Live Preview
Portable
Autocompletion
Syntax Highlighting
Full-Text Search
No Tracking
Code Formatting
File Versioning
Command line interface
Electron based
Fuzzy Finder
Unit Testing
Plugin manager
Package Control
Modular System
Collaborative writing
Plugin API
Code Snippets
Gitlab integration
Multiple Cursors
Support for Node.js
Code Completion
Minimap
Separated workspaces

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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
nglczr added Pulsar Editor as alternative to LightNote for Windows
3 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

WeiHua Liu

★★★★★

Nov 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.

Marc

★★★★★

Mar 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. 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 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.