Highlights on CotEditor 6.1

Find documents in the file browser: The file browser now allows filtering of items by filenames.
More smart comment out: The behavior of comments can now be customized, making the editor feel more natural to use.

CotEditor 6.1.0

release: 2025-11-03

New Features

Introduce the filter feature in the file browser.
Introduce the “Insert comment delimiters after indent” option to the Edit settings pane.
Revert the “Append a space to comment delimiter” option to the Edit settings pane.
Add Russian localization (Thanks to Andrey!).

Improvements

Improve the algorithm to comment out block comments.
Ignore .git folders in the file browser.
Prevent moving focus to the editor when selecting a document in the file browser.
Update the Verilog syntax to support SystemVerilog.
Update the Swift syntax.
trivial: Adjust the layout of the Settings window.
trivial: Update the Unicode block name list.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 26.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the counts in the status bar are occasionally unavailable when the document is opened.
Fix an issue where the text fields in sheet dialogs don’t get focus when they appear.

previous release notes