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 4.8.7
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.
CotEditor for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.8.7
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User Ratings
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 12 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
Oct 28 2022
Version: 4.4.0
MACUPDATE: starting with version 4.4.0 minimum requirement is macOS 12, Monterey. Please update the information on this page, still says macOS 11 or later as of this date.
May 29 2021
Version: 4.0.3
Great editor if not the best simple plan text editor for mac with syntax highlighting for coding. The only editor I could find with highlighting of bracket pairs when hovering over one side bracket it glows the other bracket (Excel formula editor can do this but there it is hard to see.)
Best of all the size is small. Recently I looked at Atom editor, while powerful free editor, it requires 700mb space and CotEditor does many of the things already at about 36mb.
Five starts even if this was a paid app. This being a free app deserves a positive review from me.
