CotEditor 4+

Lightweight plain-text editor

Mineko IMANISHI

    • 4.7 • 7 Ratings
    • Free

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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 complicated setting files that require geek knowledge so that you can access all your settings including syntax definitions and themes from a standard settings window.

Quick, Easy, and Powerful

CotEditor launches so quickly 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 software only for beginners nor a typical minimal “zen-style” editor. It is fully customizable. There are, of course, syntax highlighting 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
• 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

What’s New

Version 4.8.6

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.

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.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

good_apps_acknowledger ,

it is a decent FOSS text editing app

though, i wish there was an option to have different documents on a split view as well.

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