CotEditor

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Highlights on CotEditor 2.4

Improve text finder
CotEditor re-implemented text find actions by own code. More sophisticated and integrated UI makes your text search process much more intuitive.
Brackets and quotes balancing
For instance, typing { inserts the corresponding } then moves the cursor into the brackets automatically. The feature helps reduce bothering cursor movement and contributes to your smart coding.
Clickable URL links in documents
This new option detects URL strings in your documents and provide them as clickable & quick-lookable links.
Better detection on the file opening
We reviewed the previous file detection code and improved the precision of the encoding detection. Furthermore, CotEditor 2.4 alerts about file that isn't obviously a text file in order to avoid unwanted hang-up.

CotEditor 2.4.1

release:

Improvements

  • Update JSON syntax style:
    • Fix float number highlight.
  • Avoid displaying NULL on the status bar until the first calculation is finished.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where the text finder's “ignore case” option was ignored on CotEditor 2.4.0.
  • Fix an issue where the current line number display was wrong if the cursor is in the last empty line.

What's New on CotEditor 2.4.0

release:

New Features

  • New option balancing brackets and quotes (in “Edit” pane).
  • New option making URL in document clickable link (in “General” pane).
  • On El Capitan, hidden file visibility can be toggled via checkbox in the document open panel.
  • Add the following encodings to the encoding list:
    • Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
    • Hebrew (ISO 8859-8)
    • Nordic (ISO Latin 6)
    • Baltic (ISO Latin 7)
    • Celtic (ISO Latin 8)
    • Western (ISO Latin 9)
    • Romanian (ISO Latin 10)

Improvements

  • Improve text finder:
    • Now, “Find All” action also highlights all matched strings in the editor, and thereby “Highlight” action is removed.
    • Change advanced find option setting from popup menu to popover.
    • On Yosemite and later, a visual feedback is shown when the search wrapped.
    • Keep selected range after “Replace All” with in-selection option.
    • Display total number of found in find panel on simple find actions.
    • Now, “Find All” and “Replace All” actions are able to process multiple selections.
    • Add Python syntax to the regular expression syntax options.
    • Revert “Use selection for Replace” action to allow using an empty string.
    • Update layout and style.
  • cot command now opens symbolic link target rather than the link itself.
  • On El Capitan, make option control of the document open panel visible.
  • Improve syntax highlighting for quoted strings and comment.
  • Display alert if file to open seems to be a kind of a media (binary) file.
  • Improve file encoding detection.
  • Update default priority order of encoding detection.
  • Improve character compatibility check.
  • Better error message on file opening.
  • Increase the number of significant digits in file size display.
  • Update Shell Script syntax style:
    • Fix variable highlight with _.
  • Take a safety measure for in case the key binding setting file is corrupt.
  • Truncate outline label in the navigation bar by appending ellipsis if it overflows.
  • Move some options position within “General” pane and “Edit” pane in preferences window.
  • Rename the main text input area in window from “View” to “Editor”.

Fixes

  • Fix cursor location after moving lines with empty selection.
  • Fix line-wrapping behavior when the line contains a long unbreakable word.
  • Fix an issue where the application crashed by an invalid find regular expression option combination.
  • Fix an issue where the application could crash just after starting dictation.
  • Fix an issue where keybinding setting could fail.
  • Fix an issue where the scroll bar style didn't change to light color on dark background theme.
  • Fix an issue where the character inspector didn't show up on Mavericks and earlier.
  • Fix an issue where split orientation setting wasn't applied.
  • Fix an issue where “Jump to Selection” action didn't jump to selection in editor if other text box is focused.
  • Fix an issue where some table cells didn't change their text color when selected.
  • Fix tiny memory leaks.

previous release notes