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: 423,022 ▲ 83.87K

Rating: 4.59 (1,267)

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

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 2.14M

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 973 ▲ 75

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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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

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