Customize Pulsar

We’ve covered the built-in functionality of Pulsar; let’s get into the “hyper-hackable” portion of your text editor.

Perhaps there is a keybinding that you use a lot but feels wrong or a color that isn’t quite right for you. Pulsar is amazingly flexible, so let’s go over some of the simpler flexes it can do.

• Creating your own snippets

  Make repetitive text entry less of a chore.
• Configuring with CSON

  CSON: like JSON, but more laid-back.
• Style tweaks

  How to modify the look of Pulsar.
• Customizing keybindings

  How to change what keyboard shortcuts do in Pulsar.
• Global configuration settings

  An introduction to Pulsar’s settings.
• Language-specific configuration settings

  Define custom settings on a per-language basis.
• Customizing language recognition

  Change the grammar chosen for a file.
• Controlling where customization is stored

  Modify where your configuration data lives.
• The init file

  Learn the power of the init file.