CotEditor

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Highlights on CotEditor 2.5

New “Unicode (UTF-8) with BOM” encoding
No more suffering by the invisible UTF-8 BOM. Now, you can check from the toolbar whether your UTF-8 document has a BOM, and even switch between with and without it easily.
Adding the execute permission from save panel
As you can give the execute permission on the save panel, scripts can be run immediately after the creation without chmod.
Smoother pinch-zoom
The pinch-zoom becomes smoother and more intelligent. For instance, how about splitting editors and scale up just one side from them?

What's New on CotEditor 2.5.1

release:

Improvements

  • Change underline style of outline items.
  • Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
    • Improve outline definitions to support the class syntax sugar introduced in ECMAScript 6.
    • Better coloring for “get” and “set”.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where application could crash on opening empty file.
  • Fix an issue where cot command could fail creating new empty file.
  • Fix an issue where selected line numbers were not drawn in bold font.

What's New on CotEditor 2.5.0

release:

cf. Changes from 2.5.0-beta.

New Features

  • Add independent “Unicode (UTF-8) with BOM” encoding to encoding list.
    • Respect the existence of the UTF-8 BOM in opened files.
    • Enable switching the document encoding between with and without BOM from the toolbar popup button and the “Format” menu.
      • The “Unicode (UTF-8) with BOM” item will be automatically added to just after the normal “Unicode (UTF-8)”.
  • Now, the execute permission can be given to the file to save from the save panel.
  • Add spelling auto correction option (in “Edit” pane).
  • Add a new theme “Lakritz”.

Improvements

  • Update cot command-line tool:
    • Create a new file if a non-existent file path is passed in with --new option.
  • Revert “Highlight” and “Unhighlight” actions in “Find” menu.
  • Improve font-size changing behavior:
    • Smoother pinch-zoom.
    • Now font-size change applies only to the focused editor.
    • Enable pinch-zoom to make font smaller than default font size.
    • Font size changing doesn't affect the actual font anymore but just scale characters visibly.
    • Fix an issue where font-size changing could remove hanging indent.
    • Fix an issue where layout of split editors will be broken if the font of one of the other split editors is changed.
  • Separate the “Enable smart quotes and dashes” into “Enable smart quotes” and “Enable smart dashes” (in “Edit” pane).
  • Apply the following text actions to whole document if no text is selected:
    • Indentation > Convert Indentation to Tab / Spaces
    • Lines > Sort
    • Lines > Reverse
    • Lines > Delete Duplicates
  • Optimize document opening performance with large file.
  • Add “Copy as Rich Text” action to the contextual menu.
  • Improve recovering status of unsaved documents on window resume.
  • Improve line number view drawing with selection on vertical text mode.
  • Improve invisibles drawing:
    • Optimize drawing performance (ca. 2x).
    • Better drawing if anti-aliasing is off.
  • Display the following dialogs as a document-modal sheet:
    • The dialog asking encoding compatibility on saving.
    • The print progress panel
  • Avoid registering indentation conversion action to the undo history if no text was changed.
  • Better error message on file opening.
  • Suppress trimming whitespace at the editing point on auto-saving when “Trim trailing whitespace on save” is on.
  • Tweak some label text in preferences.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where printing area could be cropped.
  • Fix an issue where the background of navigation/status bars were not drawn under a specific condition.
  • Fix an issue where the numbers in the line number view could be drawn in a wrong place if the editor is vertical text mode and unwrapped.
  • Fix an issue where document could not be drawn until the end of the file on legacy OS if the file contains control characters.
  • Fix an issue on Mavericks and earlier where the application hung up if tried to print line numbers by vertical text layout on printing.
  • Fix an issue where line numbers could be drawn at a bit shifted position or even cropped on printing.
  • Fix XML document icon.
  • Fix some unlocalized text.

previous release notes