CotEditor

⚠️ This is a pre-release version.

Highlights on CotEditor 7.1

Find it in the folder
Search text across files in an opened folder right from the sidebar.
Back and forward in folders
Use the toolbar to move back and forward through recently viewed documents in a folder document.
Ready for macOS 27
CotEditor now supports macOS 27 Golden Gate, including refreshed appearance for the latest system.
Let the document name itself
On macOS 27, untitled documents automatically get a draft name suggested from their content.
Indentation that fits each syntax
Use Mode settings to customize the indentation style for individual syntaxes as you like.

CotEditor 7.1.0-beta

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Compatibility Changes

  • Change the system requirement to macOS Tahoe 26 or later.

New Features

  • Support macOS 27 Golden Gate.
  • Add folder search to the sidebar for searching for text across files in an open folder.
  • Add document history navigation to the toolbar for folder documents.
  • Automatically generate and apply a draft document name from the document’s content on macOS 27.
  • Allow the indentation style (spaces or tabs) and width to be set for each Mode.
  • Add the Customize Syntax Menu command to the More menu in the “Available syntaxes” section of the Format settings pane, allowing specific syntaxes to be hidden from syntax menus.
  • Add the “Status bar” option to the Appearance settings pane.

Improvements

  • Make some settings dialogs resizable.
  • Allow custom syntaxes to be deleted by dragging them to the Trash.
  • Allow CotEditor Syntax files and multiple replacement definitions to be imported by dropping them onto their respective lists.
  • Add a context menu to the list in the Mode settings pane.
  • Display the number of definition errors as a badge in the sidebar of the syntax editor.
  • Automatically apply the JSON syntax to documents whose file type is a kind of JSON, such as GeoJSON files.
  • Update the JSON syntax to simplify the file mapping settings.
  • Improve overall stability and performance.
  • dev: Tweak the accent color.
  • dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 27 Beta 4 (Swift 6.4, macOS 27 SDK).

Known Issues

  • The status bar text can appear with an unreadable color with certain combinations of the system appearance, window appearance, and theme on macOS 26 (FB23611796).
  • In some cases, a sandboxed URL is passed when folder search results are dropped onto another app (FB23578716).
  • The text added in CotEditor 7.1.0 is not yet localized in Bulgarian, Czech, and Polish.

This version also includes some changes planned for the upcoming CotEditor 7.0.8 release.

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