CotEditor

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• [trivial] Improve the Recently Used list of syntaxes in the toolbar item.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where an existing document may unintentionally shift when a new document is opened.
• [trivial] Fix an issue where the titlebar separator in the inspector is drawn in the incorrect position when the tab bar is shown.

Full Changelog: 5.1.6...5.1.6

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• Keep syntax highlights by text selection in the Dark mode as well.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on CotEditor 5.1.4 where the insertion point rarely jumps to the nearest outline item when the outline inspector is shown.

Full Changelog: 5.1.4...5.1.5

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• Enable the “text replacement” option by default in custom modes.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on CotEditor 5.1.3 where the app rarely becomes unresponsive when a save is performed.
• Fix an issue where the document position doesn’t cascade from the previous document when opening a document while the app is inactive.

Full Changelog: 5.1.3...5.1.4

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• Automatically insert a closing symbol also for single and back quotation marks when the “Automatically insert closing brackets and quotes” option is enabled.
• Update the naming convention for duplicated files and folders in the file browser.
• Discontinue appending the “copy” suffix to user settings, such as syntax definitions, when duplicating them.
• Improve the syntax highlighting algorithm.
• Update the Markdown syntax to improve the highlighting of code blocks.
• Update the Go syntax to fix some highlighting keywords (thanks to Karam!).
• Improve the stability.
• [trivial] Improve the tooltip appearance when hovering over a truncated item in the file browser.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcod

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• Switch the localized block name and the block name defined in Unicode by clicking the block name in the character inspector.
• Revert the steppers to the font setting controls in the Appearance settings pane.
• Remove the Script menu from the context menu.
• Add a help tag for the “Show Sidebar” menu item when the command is unavailable.
• Update the CSS syntax to add new keywords (thanks to Karam!).
• Update the Swift syntax to support highlighting regex literals.
• Update the JSON syntax to include the .xcstrings file extension.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where multiple text insertion points persist as visible even when the document is made not editable.

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

Improvements

• Just move the insertion point instead of inserting a new one when typing a quotation mark just before a quotation mark automatically inserted by the “Automatically insert closing brackets and quotes” option.
• Update the Unicode block name list.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in the What’s New window where an unwanted beta label would appear even in stable versions.

Full Changelog: 5.1.0...5.1.1

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

New Features

• Append the nearest unique ancestor folder name to the document title if multiple documents with the same name are opened.
• The new “prevent editing” command that prevents documents from being unintentionally edited.
• Introduce the new AppleScript parameter editable to document objects.
• Introduce the --readonly (-r) option to the cot command-line tool to open documents as read-only.
• Read input from the standard input when the cot command-line tool is used with the - option.
• Display Finder tags in the document inspector and the file browser.
• Add the “text replacement” option to the Mode settings to disable the future in the editor.
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system requirements: macOS 14 and later

New Features

• Add the PowerShell syntax.

Improvements

• Update the PHP syntax.
• Declare CotEditor can handle folders.
• [dev] Update Yams from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.6.4 to 2.7.0.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in the AppleScript support where the print command is ignored.
• Fix an issue where the Settings window is not accessible from the Window menu.
• Fix an issue on macOS 15 where newly created documents are mispositioned when the frontmost document is tiled.

Full Changelog

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

New Features

• Add the “text replacement” option to the Mode settings to disable the future in the editor.

Improvements

• Show an alert and abort the import of setting files if they are not in a valid format.
• Update the JSON syntax to include the .jsonl file extension.
• Improve the stability.
• [experimental] Improve the syntax highlighting algorithm for inline comments.
• [dev] Update Yams from 5.1.3 to 5.3.0.
• [beta.2] Update the Dutch localizations for strings added in CotEditor 5.1.0.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in the Appearance settings pane

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

New Features

• Display Finder tags in the document inspector and the file browser.

Improvements

• [beta] Update the Korean and Polish localizations for strings newly added in CotEditor 5.1.0.

Known Issue

• The texts added in CotEditor 5.1.0 are not localized yet in Dutch.

Full Changelog: 5.1.0-beta...5.1.0-beta.2

system requirements: macOS 14 and later

New Features

• Append the nearest unique ancestor folder name to the document title if multiple documents with the same name are opened.
• The new “prevent editing” command that prevents documents from being unintentionally edited.
• Introduce the new AppleScript parameter editable to document objects.
• Introduce the --readonly (-r) option to the cot command-line tool to open documents as read-only.
• Read input from the standard input when the cot command-line tool is used with the - option.

Improvements

• Improve th