CotEditor

Highlights on CotEditor 6.0

Liquid Glass Look
Experience the refreshed interface with the new Liquid Glass style in macOS Tahoe 26.

CotEditor 6.0.0

release:

New Features

  • Support macOS Tahoe 26.

Improvements

  • Change the system requirement to macOS Sequoia 15 and later.
  • Update the user interface on macOS 26 to the Liquid Glass style.
  • Update the application icon to the Liquid Glass style.
  • The options to highlight matching braces have been removed and they are now always highlighted.
  • Apply the text find highlighting to all split editors.
  • Move selected items to the Trash by the Delete action in the file browser.
  • Show also the file size of the previewed document in the status bar.
  • Display the numbers of registered items below the lists in the syntax editor.
  • Deprecate the feature to change the editor opacity per window.
  • Deprecate the feature of installing a custom theme by simply opening the file in CotEditor.
  • Deprecate the “Make Snake Case,” “Make Camel Case,” “Make Pascal Case,” “Hiragana to Katakana,” and “Katakana to Hiragana” commands in the Text > Transformations menu.
  • Deprecate the “Draw separator” option for the line number view on macOS 26.
  • trivial: Rename the “Half-width to Full-width” and “Full-width to Half-width” commands to “Convert to Full Width” and “Convert to Half Width”, respectively.
  • trivial: Improve the behavior of Add/Remove buttons.
  • trivial: Update the layout of the “What’s New” window.
  • dev: Migrate the theme list and syntax list in the Settings, and the input fields in the Find window to SwiftUI.
  • dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0 (Swift 6.2, macOS 26 SDK).
  • non-AppStore ver.: Add an update badge to the “Check for Update” menu item if an update is available.
  • non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.7.1 to 2.8.0.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue where the “Convert Indentation” commands don’t convert indentation to the indent style that’s not the default.
  • Fix an issue where the Syntax toolbar menu is disabled when the toolbar is shown afterward.
  • Fix an issue where the size of the Multiple Replace window is not stored.
  • Fix an issue in the Dutch localization where the number of found items isn’t displayed in the Find window.

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