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CotEditor vs Pulsar Editor

A side-by-side look at CotEditor and Pulsar Editor. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

CotEditor

CotEditor

Office & Productivity

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. It has a simple and intuitive interface with useful features like syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and file comparison. It's open-source, customizable, and supports many text encodings.

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Pulsar Editor

Pulsar Editor

Development

Pulsar Editor is a lightweight, cross-platform text editor with a minimal interface. It has syntax highlighting support for many programming languages and includes standard text editing features like find/replace, line numbers, etc. Pulsar is free, open source software.

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