A parent folder name appears in the window title for documents with the same filename.
Read-Only Mode
Prevent accidental editing by making documents read-only from the Format > Prevent Editing command or the cot command-line tool.
Display Finder Tags
Displaying Finder tags to the document inspector and the file browser ensures consistent document organization.
CotEditor 5.1.1
release:
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.
CotEditor 5.1.0
release:
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” option 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.
Add the PowerShell syntax.
Improvements
Show an alert and abort the import of setting files if they are not in a valid format.
Declare CotEditor can handle folders.
Update the JSON syntax to include the .jsonl file extension.
Update the Fortran syntax to include the .cuf file extension.
Update the PHP syntax
Improve the VoiceOver support.
Improve the stability.
experimental: Improve the syntax highlighting algorithm for inline comments.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0.
dev: Update Yams from 5.1.3 to 5.3.1.
Fixes
Fix an issue in the AppleScript support where the `print` command is ignored.
Fixed an issue in CotEditor 5.0.8 where the file path argument passed to CotEditor scripts is percent-encoded.
Fix an issue in the Appearance settings pane where the alert about potential non-monospace fonts keeps appearing even after changing only the font size.
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.