Caret

Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS

What is Caret?

Caret is an offline, professional text editor extension for Chrome and Chrome OS. Modeled after Sublime Text, its features include tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, project view, 'go to' functionality and multiple keystrokes. It's designed to assist developers, providing a serious programming environment without needing to install another OS.

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By: https://thomaswilburn.net

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Users: N/A

Rating: 4.59 (1,267) ▼ 1 ratings

Version: 1.8.25 (Last updated: 2020-06-21)

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

clipboardRead
clipboardWrite
contextMenus
storage
notifications
syncFileSystem
app.window.fullscreen.overrideEsc
{"fileSystem":["write","retainEntries","directory"]}

Size: 2.14M

Email: ca*****@thomaswilburn.net

URLs: Website

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# 147184 ▼ 397

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Summary

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Caret is a graphical text editor modeled on Sublime Text, running completely offline (no Internet connection required) and capable of opening and saving files anywhere on your hard drive. The goal of Caret is to provide a missing portion of the Chrome OS developer story: serious programmer tooling without needing to install a second OS and learn Vim.

Current features:

total offline support--no network connection required, ever
tabbed editing
syntax highlighting for many languages, and lots of color themes
hackable settings files in JSON format
remembers/restores open tabs
open files directly from the Chrome OS file manager
Project view with full-text search and project-specific settings files
Sublime-compatible keymappings, including multiple cursors and selections
Command palette/smart "go to" functionality

Help documentation is available at the GitHub wiki, including a list of possible keyboard/menu commands: https://github.com/thomaswilburn/Caret/wiki

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Great text editing capability
Supports many programming languages
Quick and smooth operation
Multiple color themes
Offline use

Cons

Issues with auto launch feature that can't be disabled
Potential problems with app visibility and access in Chrome OS
Difficulty in finding settings menu
Problems with freezing

Most mentioned

Text editing capabilities
Support for multiple programming languages
Issues with the app's interface and functionality on Chrome OS

Recent reviews

This is an awesome app! 10/5 stars!!

hacker 19374, 2020-07-04

A really nice app, very thankful I found something good with regex. Thanks.

xi si, 2020-06-27

it keeps freezing up and then i cant do anything, i cant even close the app, so i have to but very other application open on my chrome book works, just not caret, i'm super annoyed that i keep having to redo the same assignment over and over again because this app doesn't work