CotEditor

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Improvements

• Change to disable the smart quotes option in the Mode settings by default.
• Draw invisible operators (U+2061, U+2062, U+2063, and U+2064) as invisible control symbols.
• Update the Lisp, Lua, Scheme, and Tcl syntaxes to update interpreters (thanks to Renfei!).
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that a document kept in the Dock was not brought to the front on the reopen event even though no documents were displayed.
• Fix an issue that the line number view went under the toolbar when the text orientation was vertical and the navigation bar was hidden.
• Fix the view layout in the Quick Action bar.
• Fix a potential memory leak.

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Implements

• Update the Markdown syntax to fix highlighting strikethrough.
• Disable color wells in the theme editor when they use the system color.
• Improve the User Guide contents.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that a saved document could not revert to the horizontal text orientation when it was saved once as a vertical text document.
• Fix a trivial memory leak in the line ending menu (thanks to Yoshimasa Niwa).

Full Changelog: 4.8.5...4.8.6

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

New Features

• Add jq Syntax.

Improvements

• Improve the file path display in the document inspector.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that the application crashed by opening the Appearance settings pane when the font the user set did not exist.
• Fix an issue in the syntax editor that the Values pane was missing in the highlighting list in the sidebar.
• Fix an issue in the Save dialog that the file extension disappeared when the user selected the Hide Extension option.
• Fix an issue that the font fields in the Appearance settings pane could unnecessarily shrunk with specific fonts.

Full Changelog: 4.8.4...4.8.5

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Improvements

• Revert the “Do Nothing” option, which was once deprecated on CotEditor 4.6.0, for the “When nothing else is open” setting.
• Enable toolbar/menu items for the document editor even when the focus is on the inspector.
• Display a warning on setting renaming if the name contains “:”.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 15.4.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.3 that The Open dialog always shows up on launch despite the setting when the “Reopen windows from last session” option is disabled.
• Fix an issue on the version browsing that document windows could become occasionally transparent.
• Fix a typo in the Czech localization.

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system requirements: macOS 13 and later

New Features

• Add the “Show in Finder” button next to the file path in the document inspector.

Improvements

• Display the current editor mode in the document inspector.
• Use more appropriate system color for the selection background when dark mode or not differs between the editor and theme.
• Improve VoiceOver support.
• Deprecate exact recalculation of insertion points when documents are updated by external processes to improve application stability.
• Improve stability of application launch behavior.
• Update the Markdown syntax to distinguish strong emphases (strong) from normal emphases (em).
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2 (security updat

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Improvements

• Disable smart dash for the General mode by default.
• Update the JavaScript, Swift, and TOML syntaxes.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.1 that opening some kinds of documents took a long time.
• Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that the editor displayed nothing when the mode setting is empty.
• Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.8.0 that custom syntaxes could be ignored when it contains ill-formed file mapping definitions.
• Fix syntax highlighting for simple words.

Full Changelog: 4.8.1...4.8.2

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

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 pl

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

New Features

• Add the Mode feature that enables altering the editor’s behavior depending on the document’s syntax (Go Settings > Mode settings pane to set).
• Add the Restore Defaults button to the File Drop settings.
• Add Dutch localization (thanks to Yasin Gunaydin!).

Improvements

• Improve the look and feel of the syntax editor.
• Renew the “About CotEditor” window.
• Change the line count behavior to ignore the new line character at the end of the last line.
• Improve selected line number emphasis in the line number view by the vertical text orientation.
• Change the filter field for the outline inspector to apply the selection of the filter history immediately.
• Make the encodin

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

New Features

• Add Dutch localization (thanks to Yasin Gunaydin!).

Improvements

• Change the line count behavior to ignore the new line character at the end of the last line.
• Improve selected line number emphasis in the line number view by the vertical text orientation.
• Change the filter field for the outline inspector to apply the selection of the filter history immediately.
• Remove wrapped line marks in the line number view.
• Update the Makefile syntax to add “GNUmakefile” to the filename mapping.
• [trivial] Remove the dialog urging to restart the application by changing the “Reope

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Improvements

• Renew the “About CotEditor” window.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.5.2 to 2.6.0.
• [dev] Update Yams from 5.0.6 to 5.1.0.
• [dev] Migrate the status bar to SwiftUI.
• [beta] Restore the last syntax editor size within a session.

Fixes

• [beta] Fix a memory leak.
• [beta] Fix an issue on macOS 14 that multiple cursors in editors were not drawn when the editor becomes active again.
• [beta] Add missing localization.

system requirements: macOS 13 and later

Fixes

• [beta] Fix an issue that the “Suggest completions while typing” option in the Mode settings was wrongly stored.