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Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS
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"...easily the best code editor on the Chromebook." - AppStorm (http://bit.ly/1cbViEL)
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:
1.8.2: 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.
1.6.28: Fixed a font bug and a hairline border on ChromeOS when fullscreen.
1.6.26: Fixed a bug where the middle-click wouldn't close tabs. Updated translations. Added a "kill line" command if you just can't live without it. Added new JavaScript extensions (.mjs and .gs). Thanks to P@nther and erogers6264 for their contributions!
1.6.25: Updated Ace, which should fix the weird copy/paste bug people were experiencing in newer Chrome versions. Fixed a bug with the JSHint worker (thanks, null-dynamic-exception!). You should now be able to reassign the Esc key so that it won't exit fullscreen mode.
1.6.23: Updates to the Russian translation, and some small bugfixes. Removed the long-deprecated custom theme option.
1.6.22: Now you can resize the project panel (Thanks, Konstantin!).
1.6.19: Added support for custom JSHint options (Thanks, Matt!).
1.6.18: Added a toggle to show hidden directories in the project view.
1.6.16: File extensions are now case-insensitive for the purposes of syntax detection. Added "4th" as an extension. Catch some background page exceptions that may have prevented start-on-reboot on Chrome OS.
1.6.15: Fixes a bug where closing a settings file (like the user preferences) would always to try to save the file to the drive instead of to synchronized storage where it's supposed to go.
1.6.14: Fixes a bug where different folders with the same name could not both be added to a project. Adds the ability to create custom command sequences that can be triggered from menus or keys. IMPORTANT NOTE: custom themes are now deprecated. They'll probably be removed in a month or two, unless you really like them. So if they're crucial to you, speak up!
1.6.11: Fixes an issue with the search bar when there are many top-level entries in a project.
1.6.8: Fixed the spelling of reStructuredText. Remove wildcards from the manifest, which should stop Caret from opening .zip files.
1.6.7: Updated Ace to version 1.2.3, which enables the reStructured Text syntax mode.
1.6.6: Enabled many of those new syntax modes with their own extensions, and added coloring to the search results. NOTE: this version introduces a big change to the way that we register for file handlers on Chrome OS. If you notice that you're no longer seeing Caret in the list of applications when you try to open a file from Files, please file a bug or send me a support request. Thanks!
1.6.5: Added a ton of new syntax modes and file extensions. Fixed more tab overflow bugs--eventually, we'll get them all.
1.6.3: Add syntax highlighting for .phtml files. Fix an annoying tab overflow issue again.
1.6.2: Project search now maintains a history of past searches using the up/down keys. Fix some bugs with the project listing and `ignoreFiles` settings. Added .vb and .vba extensions for Visual Basic syntax.
1.6.1: Project search results are now clickable jump links, and fix some minor bugs with the search process.
1.6.0: I'm thrilled to announce that I was wrong, and that project-wide search (including unopened files) has come to Caret, thanks to a lovely contribution by @brismuth. With that in mind, I've bumped it to 1.6, since this will form the basis for a number of much-requested features, including a replacement for Ace's anemic search widget.
Please file any bugs you find at our GitHub repo!
Latest reviews
- (2024-12-02) Santhiratan Mandyam: Without this text editor, Chromebook is useless. Kudos to Thomas Wilburn.
- (2024-10-25) Jessica Theodat: Not great. Often freezes and loses data more often than I care to put up with. I'm now in search of a replacement given that these issues persistent across two separate devices (a Chrome OS workstation and Chrome OS laptop) and multiple OS versions.
- (2024-05-26) Andrew P: Very solid text editor with a lot of themes. Only giving it 4 stars because of the feature which lets you write multiple lines at one with Ctrl+Up/Down; that tends to get annoying very quickly.
- (2024-04-30) zue cell: i wish also available on tablet . this is the best n' the longest editor i ever use .
- (2024-03-21) Paul Figueiredo: The best available natively for ChromeOS. Was using Kate through a flatpak in Crostini, and it's nice to have something comparable that runs out of the box.
- (2023-08-07) David Spalding: I don't know why, but after a recent update to Chrome OS, this app disappeared from my Lenovo Chromebook. Argh! So glad to find it hasn't been killed off. It's my ASCII text editor of choice for Chrome OS.
- (2023-03-25) Patrick Taggart: i would rate it higher but they have an auto launch feature on chromebook that cannot be disabled. i absolutely hate when developers try to force their product on you by including annoying features that are impossible to get around. uninstalling and not downloading this garbage again. bozos
- (2022-11-03) Jonathan Paul: Best text editor i've ever used. and FREE. I'm bummed chrome is killing web apps, what will happen to Caret?
- (2022-10-17) Bob Cauthen: Great software... I use it quite a bit. Please update this to the latest manifest version, v3...
- (2022-07-03) Jacob Ridge: Been using this app for like 6 years now. Can't find anything better. Love it.
- (2022-05-21) Steve: I like the editing capability. But how do I print without the line numbers down the side?
- (2022-04-12) nick name: 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!
- (2022-01-11) cir yxam: 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 !!!
- (2021-11-17) Abner Diaz: Great app. I can make and edit html right from my Chromebook. Thanks devs!
- (2021-08-25) Dabest: not support autoload project directory
- (2021-07-01) Bruce Davidson: The editor part is good. Nice and clean looking. But the interface doesn't work. I can only launch it from the chrome store, and after I launch it, it takes over the same icon as he browser, so I am no longer able to use the browser - it just switches to the Caret window. I have to close Caret to get my browser back. So it's actually pretty useless.
- (2021-06-22) De Guzman Miguel (Miguel): Wow this is the best Text editor I have ever had in my Chromebook !. but may I ask how can i execute a file ?
- (2021-06-02) Clover9898: Great app, awesome handling, i only have one question that will bring it up to 5 stars, where is the settings menu? I dont know how to always autocomplete with the json files so i was wondering how to access the settings menu (if there is one)?
- (2021-04-19) UKNOWN USER: I CANT REMOVE THE STUPID THING
- (2021-03-25) Jaelyn Clarke: This app stinks. I can't do anything in it, it just freezes, and I can't even close it.
- (2021-03-19) Ian Acklam: This app is simply awesome ! - i'm not by any stretch of the imagination a professional programmer but seriously well done for this!
- (2021-03-15) Tomthesk8r: Great Text Editor overall, especially if your a chromebook user and don't have a lot of memory! It runs and open smoothly, and supports most programming languages! This was my first ever text editor and I'm never switching to a different one! Thank's Caret, you've done a lot for me!
- (2021-03-07) Frank Dave: Recently the app menu and tab title are blank...Can't send screenshot here but created issue on the github page. Can anyone help address the bug?
- (2020-12-08) Sasuke Uchiha: Syntax highlighting for tons of programming languages and offline, thanks so much!
- (2020-12-01) Sheba Doge: THIS IS THE BEST, FASTEST, AND, GREATEST TOOL FOR HTML/CSS/HAML/JS/JQUERY/ANY OTHER SCRIPT OUT THERE EVEN VBS AND THIS ISN'T EVEN WINDOWS. i have seen some terrible reviews one where a person says he cant make errors this is not for making problems (error are problems). this is made for solving errors. i also love the themes.
- (2020-11-11) Simeon Huang: Amazing application! Such a shame that Google is shutting down web apps :(
- (2020-11-01) Alicia Johnson: I can't delete this app
- (2020-10-05) xi si: A really nice app, very thankful I found something good with regex. Thanks.
- (2020-09-14) Carl Last: Very good code editor. Works well for HTML, JavaScript etc and performs well. [Settings -> User Preferences] "defaultTheme": "monokai", //This should be any of the supported Ace themes .... "uiTheme": "dark", //dark, twilight, or light I find the dark themes (remember to set default theme AND ui theme) nice on the eyes.
- (2020-09-06) nam hoangnam: best editor
- (2020-08-21) Michael Hughes: Lightweight, simple and configurable
- (2020-07-04) hacker 19374: This is an awesome app! 10/5 stars!!
- (2020-04-16) Katelynn Hurst: 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
- (2020-04-06) F NE: It was awesome for a while until it started to freeze every few minutes unfortunately. And it keeps happening all the time So I work and suddenly the cursor stops blinking. Waiting doesn't help, I have to close the app, open it again and of course I lost what I didn't save.Then I start working again and 5 minutes later I have to repeat the process, horrible.
- (2020-04-02) Evan Toomey: I couldn't run any programs, don't know if it does that but otherwise perfect.
- (2020-03-31) Nitsua: I love this text editing app, but recently it started cutting off the tops of the letters in the text, now "i" looks very similar to "l", which actually makes things harder than you may think... the only way to fix this is to zoom in or out until it looks normal, but that gets annoying since I have to do that all the time just to read my code.
- (2020-02-09) Landon Lloyd: LOVE IT. Can anyone tell me if I can do like c# or Java on this text editor? Does it work?
- (2020-02-05) Archy Lunker: Everything I need, easy to use, free & open-source. Thanks for saving me from editor 'analysis-paralysis'
- (2020-01-21) Eamon Harbison: Great tool for editing all kinds of differently syntax'd files on Chrome OS!
- (2020-01-16) Bisser Dyankov: Would have made my Chromebook nearly useless. Way better than original Google text editor. Hope it won't die when Chrome apps get discontinued in 2021.
- (2020-01-13) Denis: Great app! Thank you!
- (2020-01-12) Sohum Belhe: This is amazing, use it for HTML and CSS across all my devices.
- (2020-01-10) Pavel Bucka: This is what I've been looking for.
- (2019-11-23) T L: The best on the market. Wish I could easily have access to it as an extension rather than just an APP. Have to ForceInstall from my web server.
- (2019-10-15) GLADOS The Giant: Works well, well designed, I used to miss Notepad++ when I switched to a chromebook, this perfectly replaces it (and does a better job). I must ask though, What is the difference between "Caret" and "Caret-T"? [You got me confused on that one]
- (2019-10-01) Tex Hoyer: Clean and easy to use for for my needs as a learning JavaScript user! I also enjoyed how the settings config is just a saved json file which you edit with Caret to change your preferences. That is a fun touch showing the program ease of use and practicality!
- (2019-08-10) Winston Zhao: Very fast, powerful. No matter the amount of data, this app still handles it perfectly. It's exciting to see these high quality non web apps appear on the Chrome Web Store!
- (2019-08-10) Emmanuel Aina: Works perfectly
- (2019-07-30) Bryan Parks: The only code editor I've found that might be better is VS Code, but it's slow to launch since it's a Linux app. Caret is my goto editor in most cases.
- (2019-07-12) Christophe Hollebeke: One off the best hackable code-editors. Works smooth and fast. Emmet-integration would be perfect!