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CotEditor 4.8.1

Plain-text editor for web pages, program source codes and more

Category: Productivity
Price: Free
Popularity: High
Version String: 4.8.1 (644)
Release Date: 2024-04-22
Architecture: Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS: macOS 13.0
Vendor Name: Mineko IMANISHI
Homepage: coteditor.com

Version History 4.8.1 (644)

Improvements
- Add context menus for text size change to the tables in the outline inspector and find the result view.
- Improve the algorithm to parse syntax highlighting with simple words.
- Improve error message when failing to load setting files.
- Improve general stability.

Fixes
- Address an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the application could crash while updating the editor counts.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that custom syntaxes could be empty when it contains ill-formed definitions.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the editor's kerning did not set to zero despite the font type being monospaced.
- Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that some steppers in the Settings window were placed on the opposite side.
- Fix an issue that the application crashed when the sort key in the Sort by Pattern contains only whitespace.
- Fix an issue that the current line highlight did not appear when the insertion point was located at the last empty line.
- Fix an issue that the same instance highlight remains under specific conditions.

Description:

CotEditor is a light-weight, neat, yet powerful text editor designed for editing plain-text files such as web pages (HTML, CSS), program source codes (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.), structured texts (Markdown, Textile, TeX, etc.), or any other kind of plain-text.


Just For Mac

The application is exactly made for macOS. CotEditor looks and behaves just as macOS applications should. It means, you already know how to use it even on the first launch. There are no complex configuration files that require geek knowledge so that you can access all your settings including syntax definitions and themes from a standard preferences window.

Quick, Easy, and Powerful

CotEditor launches so quick that you can write your text immediately when you want to. It's perfect for you to write a draft version of your document or a scratch code. The simply organized user interface doesn't disturb your task. However, at the same time, CotEditor is neither a software only for beginners nor a typical minimal “zen-style” editor. It is fully customizable. There are, of course, syntax highlighting feature for various languages, find and replace with the regular expression, auto-indentation, command-line tool, and lots of other deep functions. You can also easily write your own macro in your favorite languages.

Key Features

• Syntax highlighting including more than 50 preset languages
• Powerful find and replace with the regular expression
• Auto-backup with/without overwriting actual document files
• Line numbers view
• Live character/word/line count
• Handling file encoding and line endings with care
• Auto-generated outline menu for fast navigation
• Multi-cursor editing
• Character inspector that shows the zoomed glyph and Unicode information
• Vertical text layout mode
• Various Unicode normalizations
• Semi-transparent window
• Command-line tool
• Scriptable with your favorite language
• JCK-languages friendly