CotEditor 4.8.0
release:
New Features
- Add the Mode feature that enables altering the editor’s behavior depending on the document’s syntax (Go Settings > Mode settings pane to set).
- Add the Restore Defaults button to the File Drop settings.
- Add Dutch localization (thanks to Yasin Gunaydin!).
Improvements
- Improve the look and feel of the syntax editor.
- Renew the “About CotEditor” window.
- Change the line count behavior to ignore the new line character at the end of the last line.
- Improve selected line number emphasis in the line number view by the vertical text orientation.
- Change the filter field for the outline inspector to apply the selection of the filter history immediately.
- Make the encoding priority view undoable.
- Disable the pane transition animation in the Settings window when the user sets to reduce motion in the system Accessibility settings.
- Deprecate “Append a space to comment delimiter” option.
- Remove wrapped line marks in the line number view.
- Update the Makefile syntax to add “GNUmakefile” to the filename mapping.
- non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.5.2 to 2.6.0.
- trivial: Enable delete selected separators in the encoding priority view with the Delete key.
- trivial: Avoid users using reserved syntax names.
- trivial: Remove the dialog urging to restart the application by changing the “Reopen windows from last session” option in the General settings pane.
- dev: Migrate the settings window, syntax editor, and status bar to SwiftUI.
- dev: Migrate all localizable strings to String Catalog.
- dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 15.3 (Swift 5.10).
- dev: Update Yams from 5.0.6 to 5.1.2.
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the application crashed when trying to share a custom syntax.
- Fix an issue on the filter field for the outline inspector that the filter history was initially empty.
- Fix an issue on macOS 14 that multiple cursors in editors remained when they are inactive.
- Fix missing localizations.