Caret Caret

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Version: 1.8.25
Last Update: 2020-06-21

Overview

Caret is a Chrome extension developed by Thomas Wilburn. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Caret is 1.8.25, updated on 2020-06-21.
0 users have installed this extension. 1270 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: thomaswilburn.net

Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS

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

Looking for Git/Drive/SFTP support? Please read this note: https://github.com/thomaswilburn/Caret/wiki/Git-SFTP-Drive-support

Caret is also 100% open-source: please feel free to contribute code and file bugs via the GitHub repo (see website link on Details tab, or look in the menus for Settings > About Caret).

If you like Caret, leave a review! I love reviews.

WHAT'S NEW:

1.8.24: Added French translation (thanks, Jérôme). Added Croatian and updated German translations (thanks to milotype). Added TSX to the language modes (thanks, Nathan).

1.8.21: Updated Ace to the newest build. Added support for FSharp files. Added the e-mail MIME type to the manifest. Updated the Swedish translation (Thanks, Rasmus!).

1.8.20: Updated Ace to the newest version, added support for OpenHab and Salesforce syntax. Added an option to set the line height in the editor.

1.8.19: Removed Lucene syntax, which was causing hard locks for some reason. If this affects you, I'd love to have help figuring out the problem.

1.8.17: Lots of fixes for the project view and tabs (thanks to Alistair and Joel!)

1.8.13: Caret will now switch to the existing tab if you try to open a file twice, instead of opening it in a second tab and then creating a black hole that swallows your neighborhood.

1.8.11: Add Fortran support, and nag people who override the browser default for "monospace" with a variable-width font.

1.8.9: Fix a new bug with printing documents in newer versions of Chrome.

1.8.8: New Ace release

1.8.6: Caret will now detect non-monospaced font family settings (which are not, and have never been, supported in the editor) and warn you about them. If you get a false positive (i.e., you set a monospace font and it complained about it) please let me know so I can update the test accordingly.

1.8.4: Added a preference for when to show update notifications - "background", "launch", or "silent". Thanks, Simon!

1.8.2: Added an Italian translation (Thanks, Mattia!)

1.8.1: The hits keep coming with this minor release, which adds the long-awaited ability to define some options on a per-syntax basis. It's limited at this time to the subset of settings that Ace keeps with editor sessions, but that's enough to support different indentation between say, Python and JS. See the default user preferences for more details!

1.7.2: Large behind-the-scenes rewrite based on new browser APIs. More details in the changelog. This update may introduce bugs, so please let me know if anything is broken. Also, you will need to update to at least Chrome 55 for this version to work. That's a year old, so it's probably overdue.

Please file any bugs you find at our GitHub repo!

Rating

1270 ratings

Total Installs

0

Information

Last Update

2020-06-21

Current Version

1.8.25

Size

2.04MiB

Author

Thomas Wilburn

Website

thomaswilburn.net

Category

Developer Tools

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avatar Steve
2022-05-21

I like the editing capability.

But how do I print without the line numbers down the side?

avatar abraham sofer
2022-04-12

thank you very much for providing this wonderful app.
i've just installed it today and it worked great by now.
still, i'm usually finding problems, and it would be great to allow reporting them, as github issues or any user group etc.

probably due to my ignorance, caret marked some of my legitimate code as errors:
'use strict'
and spread syntax ...ident_ifier,
which come from es6.
one more error marked code:
removing the async hides the error marker.
exports.up = async (knex) =

;

everything else was great, thanks again!

avatar cir yxam
2022-01-11

one of best [ if not BEST ] text editor for chromebook / chromebox;

1- fast on large files,
2- has line sort,
3- so far did not create any issues,
4- has font size change,
5- plenty of colour themes,
6- very easy to reduce / change user preferences & menus,
7- auto open last edited files,
8- find & replace extremely fast,
9- list paragraphs number,
10- fast TAB to SPACE change,
11- could display some control characters [ tab, space, line-end ]
12- and has many other nice futures basic use user may not need for text editor,

just work very well,
thank you developer for making it !!!

avatar Abner Diaz
2021-11-17

Great app. I can make and edit html right from my Chromebook. Thanks devs!

avatar Dabest
2021-08-25

not support autoload project directory