CotEditor 7.0.8

release: 2026-08-07

Improvements

Prevent the file browser from opening UNIX executable files as plain text.
Display more accurate error messages in dialogs.
Updated the SON syntax to change the file mapping for Package.resolved from file extensions to filenames.
Improve cancellation handling for syntax highlighting with computationally intensive regular expressions.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.9.3 to 2.9.5.
Improve localization.
Improve overall stability.

Fix an issue where the application could crash or freeze when undoing an edit that shortened the document, such as the trimming of trailing whitespace.
Fix an issue where the tab width customized for a document was not applied when printing.
Fix an issue where the insertion point could move to an incorrect column when extending a selection upward from the end of the document.
Fix an issue where the Surround Selection With > Custom dialog did not show the last used strings.
Fix an issue where the window size setting was not included in the exported settings archive (Thanks to offyotto!).
Fix an issue where the incompatible character list in the Warnings inspector was not updated when the document’s text encoding was changed.