CotEditor for Mac
Plain text editor.
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CotEditor overview
CotEditor is an open-sourced, Cocoa-based plain-text editor for macOS. It supports syntax highlighting, has a powerful find-and-replace with the regular expression, and other small goodies for coding. It can handle also CJK languages well.
What’s new in version 6.0.4
- Improve the user interface details on macOS 26.
- Enable the enhanced runtime security protections.
- Ensure that the sidebar is always displayed when opening a folder document.
- Improve the “Open with External Editor” button in file preview views to allow specifying the application to open.
- [trivial] Display a confirmation dialog after changing the “Reopen windows from last session” option in the General settings pane.
- [trivial] Make text in the information part of the About window selectable.
- [dev] Update Yams from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0.1.
- Workaround an issue on macOS 26 where the editor’s scroller tracks have a different style compared to standard scrollers.
- Fix an issue where the counts in the status bar are occasionally unavailable when the document is opened.
- Fix an issue in the vertical text orientation where the line number view is tucked beneath the titlebar when the navigation bar is hidden.
- Fix an issue in the multiple replacement window where the text selection is unexpectedly canceled.
- Fix an issue where the editor in a document opened by replacing with a blank document doesn’t initially have focus.
- Fix an issue in the Find All command where the result view doesn’t display the correct document title when the target document was created by replacing with a blank document.
- Fix an issue where the line endings pop-up button doesn’t work when the document was opened in a blank document.
- Fix an issue in the multiple replacement window where the sidebar can be collapsed.
- Fix an issue where the syntax mapping conflict view cannot be closed.
CotEditor for Mac
Free
In English
Version 6.0.4
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Sep 17 2024
Version: 5.0.0
With version 5 of CotEditor, you can now fuel the brilliance behind this app by becoming a coffee sponsor! We all know coffee isn't just a beverage—it's the magical elixir that keeps the developer's code flowing smoothly, and solves every problem. To donate and keep the caffeine levels high, download the MAS (Mac App Store) edition of the app. Because behind every great app is an even greater cup of coffee!
Apr 19 2024
Version: 4.8.0
CotEditor is one of the top apps that I constantly use in my daily work. Despite being "just" and editor it is an impressive feat of engineering. I am surprised that the developer is not even trying to get paid for his excellent work on this app, and I don't even see a donation button anywhere. I would have gladly paid the developer to encourage the work. Whenever possible, please consider download this app via MAS, which is also free, and writing a 5-star review.
Feb 13 2024
Version: 4.7.4
i was looking for an alternative to notepad++ for mac and i found coteditor. it’s simple and does its job very well
