CotEditor 4.3.6

release: 2022-10-01

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.3.5 that the option “Give execute permission” in the save dialog was occasionally ignored.
Fix a typo in PHP syntax style (Thanks to DAnn2012!).

CotEditor 4.3.5

release: 2022-09-17

Improvements

non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the option “Give execute permission” in the save dialog was applied to the document even when the save operation was canceled.
Address an issue since macOS 12.4 that the buttons in the save dialog became occasionally unresponsive when the application is running in some specific Japanese environment.
Fix an issue that the column of the outline pane was narrower than the list width.
Fix an issue that memory could leak when the opacity toolbar item is used.
Fix an issue that the width of the line number view was not updated when the content was changed on disk.
Fix some typos.
non-AppStore ver.: Fix an issue that a message about the software update in the General pane was hidden.

CotEditor 4.3.4

release: 2022-08-26

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.3.3 that the window size was not inherited from the last document.

CotEditor 4.3.3

release: 2022-08-13

Fixes

Fix an issue that the application could hang up when an opened document shared in iCloud Drive was modified in another machine.
Fix an issue that document windows sometimes did not shift the initial position from the last window.
Fix an issue that the scrollable area of the editor in vertical layout orientation could be clipped wrongly when scaled.
Fix an issue that some text was not localized.

CotEditor 4.3.2

release: 2022-07-30

Improvements

non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle to 2.2.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the tab width setting was not respected when printing.
Fix an issue that the length of invisible tab characters was drawn wrongly in the right-to-left writing direction.

CotEditor 4.3.1

release: 2022-07-03

New Features

Add new Shuffle command to the Text > Lines submenu.

Improvements

Optimize the performance for editor splitting.
Avoid sluggishness by incremental search in large documents.
Optimize the performance of highlighting selected text instances.
Remove the limitation to highlight a large number of instances of the selected text.
Scroll the editor by the Move Line Up/Down commands so that the moved lines are visible.
Change the behavior of the metacharacter \v in the regular expression for text search to confirm with the current ICU specification.
Update Swift syntax style to add keywords.
trivial: Update French localization.

Fixes

Fix an issue that memory rarely leaked on closing documents.

CotEditor 4.3.0

release: 2022-06-18

New Features

Incremental search in the Find window.

Improvements

Drastically improved the performance of syntax highlighting on large documents so that no rainbow cursor appears.
Stop displaying the progress indicator for syntax highlight on large documents and apply the highlight asynchronously instead.
Optimize the time to open large documents.
Avoid re-parsing syntax on printing.
Update the style of the search progress dialog.
Remove the preference option to disable syntax highlighting.
Update Swift syntax style to support Swift 5.7.
trivial: Suppress the inconsistent line ending alert in the Versions browsing.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the application crashed with very specific fonts.
Fix an issue that the highlights of Find All in the editor remained even when closing the Find window.
Fix an issue that the application could become unresponsive when trying to show the file mapping conflicts.

CotEditor 4.2.3

release: 2022-06-05

Improvements

Make the font size of the find result table changeable by Command-Plus sign (+) or Command-Minus sign (-) while focusing on the result table.
Rewrite the algorithm parsing comments and quoted text.
Update LaTeX syntax style to improve highlighting.
Update the following syntax styles to fix syntax highlighting: DTD, INI, JSON, LaTeX, Markdown, PHP, Perl, reStructuredText, Ruby, Shell Script, Textile, XML, and YAML.
Update SQL syntax style to support inline comment highlighting with #.
trivial: Change the color names in the Stylesheet Keyword color palette in the color code panel to lower case.

Fixes

Fix an issue by documents with the CRLF line ending that the editor did not scroll by changing selection with the Shift-arrow keys.
Fix an issue that letters in the editor were drawn in wrong glyphs when updating the font under very specific conditions.

CotEditor 4.2.2

release: 2022-05-26

Improvements

Perform automatic indentation even when inserting a newline while selecting text.
Alert for registering the key bindings that are not actually supported.
Update Markdown and Textile syntax styles to fix highlighting.
Improve the indent style detection.
Improve traditional Chinese localization (thanks to Shiki Suen!).
Update the help contents.
trivial: Change UTI for TeX document to org.tug.tex.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 13.4 (macOS 12.3 SDK).

Fixes

Fix an issue that changing text selection with the Shift and an arrow keys could move the selection in the wrong direction.
Fix an issue that the Outline pane occasionally showed the horizontal scroller.
Fix an issue that the stored action names for customized key bindings were wrong.
Fix some unlocalized text.

CotEditor 4.2.1

release: 2022-05-11

New Features

Add Chinese (Traditional) localization (thanks to Shiki Suen!).

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.2.0 that restoring documents on macOS 11.x made the application unstable.
Fix an issue on CotEditor 4.2.0 that some snippet settings could not be inserted in a specific condition.
Fix the help content style in Dark Mode.
Fix the description of “Important change in CotEditor 4.2.0” in the Simplified Chinese localization.

CotEditor 4.2.0

release: 2022-05-09

This version contains some specific changes that may require manual migration by users. See Important changes on CotEditor 4.2 for details.

New Features

Ability to handle documents holding multiple types of line endings.
Alert inconsistent line endings in the document when opening or reloading.
List up the inconsistent line endings in the Warnings pane in the inspector.
Minor line endings, namely NEL (New Line), LS (Line Separator), and PS (Paragraph Separator), are added to the line endings options (These items are visible only either when pressing the Option key or when the document's line ending is one of these).
Add the hidden Paste Exactly command (Command-Option-V) that pastes text in the clipboard without any modification, such as adjusting line endings to the document setting.
Add an option Selection to the Pages section in the Print dialog to print only the selected text in the document.
Add history to the Unicode code point input.
Support Handoff.
Export setting files, such as themes or multiple replacements, to the Finder just by dropping the setting name from the Preferences.
Transfer settings among CotEditors in different machines via Universal Control by dragging the setting name and dropping it to the setting list area in another CotEditor.

Improvements

Update document icons.
Detect the line ending in documents more intelligently.
Indent snippet text with multiple lines to the indention level where will be inserted.
Improve the scrolling behavior by normal size documents by enabling the non-contiguous text layout mode only with large documents.
Optimize syntax parsing.
Rename the Incompatible Characters pane to the Warnings pane to share the pane with the inconsistent line ending list.
Locate the vertical scroller for the editor on the left side when the writing direction is right-to-left.
Print the line numbers on the right side on printing if the writing direction is right-to-left.
Adjust the vertical position of line numbers on printing.
Restore the characters even incompatible with the document encoding when restoring documents from the last session.
Display code points instead of being left blank in the incompatible character list for whitespaces.
Update HTML syntax style to display hr elements as separators in the Outline.
Add steppers to the font setting controls.
Restore the file encoding to one the user explicitly set in the last session.
Prefer using .yml for syntax definition files over .yaml.
Deprecate the feature to replace $LN in the outline menu template with the line number of the occurrence.
Remove original document icons for CoffeeScript and Tcl.
Revise text for more Mac-like expression.
Update the help contents.
Improve stability.
trivial: Accept script files for the Script menu with an uppercased file extension.
trivial: Replace \n with \R for the newline metacharacter in the Basic Regular Expression Syntax reference.
trivial: Tweak Anura theme.
trivial: Enable the secure state restoration introduced in macOS 12.
dev: Update Yams from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the changes of syntax styles after the launch were not applied to the file mapping.
trivial: Fix an issue that the Script menu appeared in the shortcut menu even when no script exists.

CotEditor 4.1.5

release: 2022-04-09

Improvements

Add a temporal highlight for the current match in the editor (thanks to Ethan Wong!).
Update HTML syntax style for better highlighting with ' character.
Update Swift syntax style to fix outline extraction.

Fixes

Fix an issue that reverting a document to one stored with a different file encoding from the current encoding could fail.
Fix an issue that the split view did not inherit the font style and the writing direction.
Fix an issue that the icons for Shift Left/Right commands were swapped.
Fix an issue that the incompatible character pane did not show the message “No incompatible characters were found.” when all of the existing incompatible characters are cleared.
trivial: Fix localization of a Unicode block name.

CotEditor 4.1.4

release: 2022-03-26

Improvements

Update Swift syntax style to add keywords added in Swift 5.6.
Update YAML syntax style for better coloring.
trivial: Improve progress message for the Find/Replace All.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 13.3 (Swift 5.6).

Fixes

Fix an issue that the file extension proposed in the save dialog for untitled document did not reflect the latest syntax style.
Fix an issue that the application could not open Haskell files.
Fix a potential crash when opening files via Services.

CotEditor 4.1.3

release: 2022-03-05

Improvements

Use python3 instead of python for running the cot command so that macOS 12.3 and later can use the Python installed via the Apple's developer tools (From macOS 12.3 on, cot command requires an additional install of python3).
Optimize the performance of syntax highlighting.
Update CSS and SQL syntax styles to add more coloring keywords.
Update Python syntax style to add keywords added in Python 3.10
Update Markdown and SVG syntax styles for faster syntax parsing.
Update JSON syntax style to fix coloring.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the text copied from the editor has always LF line endings regardless of the actual document's line ending setting.
Fix an issue that when the option swapping ¥ and \ keys is enabled, those characters are swapped even when inputting them with Unicode code point.

CotEditor 4.1.2

release: 2022-02-20

Improvements

dev: Update Yams from 4.0.6 to 5.0.0.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the editor scrolls oddly by typing the Space key if the “Link URLs in document” option is enabled.

CotEditor 4.1.1

release: 2022-02-16

Improvements

Improve Turkish localization (thanks to Emir SARI!).

Fixes

Fix an issue that the shortcut symbols in the Key Bindings preference pane did not display properly.

CotEditor 4.1.0

release: 2022-02-15

New Features

Add a feature to filter outline items in the outline pane.
Add an option not to draw the background color on printing.
Add “Open Outline Menu” command to the Find menu.
Add Turkish (thanks to Emir SARI!) and British English (thanks to Alex Newson!) localizations.
Introduce a new AppleScript command jump to document objects.
Introduce a new read-only AppleScript parameter has BOM to document objects and a new option BOM to the convert command.
Place line number views on the right side in the editor if the writing direction is right-to-left.
Add syntax style for Protocol Buffer.

Improvements

Change the system requirement to macOS 11 Big Sur and later.
Update the window size setting to use the last document window size if the width/height setting in the preferences > Window is left blank (= auto).
Allow the menu key bindings to assign a shortcut without the Command key.
Display code points instead of left blank in the incompatible character table for control characters.
Update Swift syntax style to add keywords added in Swift 5.5.
Update C++ syntax style to add more file extensions.
Update Markdown syntax style for faster syntax parsing.
Change the behavior to include the last empty line in the calculation when specifying lines with a negative value in the Go to Line command or via AppleScript.
Improve the character info section in the document inspector to display the list of code points for the selected character instead of displaying only when a single Unicode character is selected.
Update the Unicode block name list for the character inspector from Unicode 13.0.0 to Unicode 14.0.0.
Make sure the application relaunches even other tasks interrupt before termination.
Improve some toolbar items to make their state distinguish even collapsed.
Display the command name in the error message when the input shortcut for key bindings is already taken by another command.
Improve VoiceOver accessibility.
Update the AppleScript guide in the help.
Improve the animation by drag & drop in tables.
Optimize several document parse.
trivial: Adjust the margin of the editor area.
trivial: Hide the file extension of setting files by export by default.
trivial: Finish key binding input in Key Bindings pane when another window becomes frontmost.
trivial: Update some symbols for shortcut keys in the key binding settings.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 13.2 (Swift 5.5).
dev: Remove xcworkspace.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle to 2.0.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the current line number becomes 0 when the cursor is placed at the beginning of the document (thanks to Alex Newson!).
Fix an issue on macOS 12 Monterey that the user custom color did not apply to the i-beam cursor for the vertical layout.
Fix an issue in the document inspector that the character info section wrongly indicated the code point as U+000A for any kind of line endings, even for CR (U+000D) and CRLF.
Fix an issue that the dialog urging duplication to edit locked files displayed repeatedly under specific conditions.
Fix an issue that the slider in the editor opacity toolbar item did not work when collapsed.
Fix an issue that the editor's opacity change did not apply immediately.
Fix an issue that some uncustomizable menu commands were provided in the Key Bindings preference pane.
Fix an issue in the snippet key bindings that shortcuts with only Shift key for modifier keys were accepted though does not work correctly.
Fix an issue that the initial position of the side pane was occasionally stacked under the window toolbar.
Fix an issue that some help buttons did not work (thanks to Alex Newson!).
Fix and minor update on localized strings.
Fix cot command to work also with Python 3.
Address an issue that the syntax highlight could flash while typing.

CotEditor 4.0.9

release: 2021-11-28

Fixes

Fix an issue that File Drop settings were not saved if both the extensions and syntax styles are for “all.”
Fix an issue that shortcuts for snippet did not accept Shift with a non-letter character, such as Shift + Return.
Fix an issue that the rainbow cursor appeared when the document has a large number of incompatible characters.
Fix an issue that the rainbow cursor appeared when expanding the selection by ⌥⇧← shortcut and invisible characters are contained in the new selection.
Fix an issue that the writing direction could be changed to right to left although when the text orientation is vertical.

CotEditor 4.0.8

release: 2021-09-19

Fixes

Fix an issue that memory leaked if the autosaving is disabled.
Fix an issue on the syntax style menu in the toolbar that the previous selection remained under specific conditions.

CotEditor 4.0.7-1

release: 2021-09-10

This version was released only for the non-AppStore distribution to fix the update check issue on CotEditor 4.0.7.

Fixes

non-AppStore ver.: Fix an issue that CotEditor could not check updates.

CotEditor 4.0.7

release: 2021-09-09

Improvements

Highlight named capture where highlight regular expression patterns such as in the find panel.
Add “.erb” extension to Ruby syntax style.
Accept IANA charset names as the encoding name in convert and reinterpret commands for AppleScript.
Improve error messages for OSA Scripting.
trivial: Tweak the help layout.
dev non-AppStore ver.: Migrate Sparkle framework management from submodule to SwiftPM.
dev non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle to 2.0.0-beta.2.
dev non-AppStore ver.: Use sparkle:channel element in appcast.xml for prerelease check instead of appcast-beta.xml.

Fixes

Fix syntax highlight regression on CotEditor 4.0.6.
Fix the layout of the initial encoding priority list.

CotEditor 4.0.6

release: 2021-07-24

Improvements

Add “Share” command to the menus for setting files, such as theme, syntax style, or multi replacement definition.
Resume “Select word” on top of the document if the search reached the end.
Update the visual style of the multiple replacement window on macOS 11.
Minimize scrolling when focusing on a text such as text search and outline selection.
Improve the syntax highlighting algorithm around comments and quoted text.
Revert JavaScript syntax style update in CotEditor 4.0.5 that modifies regular expression highlight.
Update the bundled cot command to enable reading large piped text entirely.
Update help contents.
trivial: Sort themes alphabetically regardless of whether they are bundled or not.
trivial: Make the timing to trim trailing spaces shorter.
trivial: Tweak Japanese localization in Preferences.
trivial non-AppStore ver.: Sign the application with EdDSA signature for update manager (Sparkle).

Fixes

Fix an issue that the document theme did occasionally not change when switching the default theme to “Anura” in Dark Mode.
Fix an issue that disabling the “Reopen windows from last session” option did not work if the Auto Save is disabled.
Fix an issue on the latest systems that the open dialog could not see inside .app packages although when selecting the “Show hidden files” checkbox.
Fix an issue that the visual window state occasionally did not restore from the last session correctly.
Fix an issue in the inspector that the content occasionally overlapped with the pane controller above if it is shown when the window opens.
Fix an issue that the navigation bar tinted wrongly when the document window is in fullscreen and the editor is non-opaque.
Fix a typo in German localization.

CotEditor 4.0.5

release: 2021-06-06

Improvements

Update JavaScript syntax style to improve regular expression highlight.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the application did not terminate when all windows are closed.
Fix an issue that annoying dialog that alerts saving was failed could be shown while typing when autosaving is disabled.
Address an issue that typing in a large document could be slow when the Autosave feature is disabled.

CotEditor 4.0.4

release: 2021-06-02

Improvements

Update Lua syntax style.
Update Swift syntax style for more accurate outline extraction and literal number highlight.
Update JavaScript, PHP, and CoffeeScript syntax styles for more accurate literal number highlight.
Avoid escaping non-ASCII characters to Unicode code points when exporting syntax styles to YAML files.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the application did not terminate when all windows are closed.
Fix an issue in the script menu that a script bundle (.scptd) was handled not as a script but as a folder.
Fix an issue in the snippet key bindings that shortcuts with only Shift key for modifier keys were accepted though does not work correctly.
Fix an issue that the application rarely showed the open dialog on launch even when the user setting for the startup behavior is not “show open dialog.”
Fix literal number highlight with Ruby syntax style.
Address an issue that annoying dialog that alerts saving was failed could be shown while typing when autosaving is disabled.

CotEditor 4.0.3

release: 2021-05-08

Improvements

Keep detached character inspectors even after the parent document is closed.
Detect syntax style from the file extension also case-insensitively.
Update R syntax style.
non-AppStore ver.: Reduce the application size.
dev: Update Yams from 4.0.4 to 4.0.6.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 12.5.

CotEditor 4.0.2

release: 2021-03-17

Improvements

Update LaTeX syntax style to support $x^2$ style inline math equations.
Update Swift syntax style to add async, await, and @asyncHandler.
Update Touch Bar icons.
Prevent flashing the acknowledgment window on the first launch in the Dark Mode.
Improve stability.
dev: Update Yams from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 12.4.

Fixes

Fix French localization.
trivial: Fix script icon in Help contents in Dark mode.

CotEditor 4.0.1

release: 2020-11-14

Improvements

trivial: Reset toolbar setting.
dev: Update Yams from 4.0.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue on the Big Sur that the navigation bar in the document window disappeared.

CotEditor 4.0.0

release: 2020-11-11

New Features

Brand-new user interface designed to fit macOS 11 Big Sur.
- Update the application icon.
- Redesign the document window.
Support Apple Silicon.
Add syntax styles for Pascal (Thanks to cbnbg!), Dockerfile, and VHDL.

Improvements

Change the system requirement to macOS 10.15 Catalina and later.
Move line endings/file encoding menus from the toolbar to the status bar.
Change default settings of items to display in the toolbar/status bar.
Change the default theme from Dendrobates to Anura.
Change the UI of the Unicode code point input to display the input field just above the insertion point.
Change the “trim trailing whitespace on save” option in the General pane to perform the trimming not on save but while typing with delay, and move the option to the Edit pane.
On sorting lines by pattern, evaluate numbers more intelligently when the “treat numbers as numeric value” option is enabled.
Enable toggling the editor split orientation by right-clicking the editor split button in the navigation bar.
Enable action to toggle editor split orientation even when no split editor is opened.
Remove the Integration preferences pane and move its contents to the General pane.
Enable “select previous/next outline item” commands even when the navigation bar is hidden.
Live update selection counts while moving the selection.
Scroll editor by swiping the line number area.
Reduce the priority that CotEditor implicitly becomes the default application for specific file types.
Previously, CotEditor scripts written in Unix scripts, such as Ruby or Python, were decoded using the user-preferred file-encoding set in the Format preferences pane for normal documents, now they are always interpreted as UTF-8.
Avoid showing the “edited” indicator in the close button of document windows when the document content is empty and therefore can close the window without the confirmation dialog.
Avoid discarding the current input when a new item is added while another item is in editing in the syntax style editor.
Round the corners of current line highlight.
Put only the filename rather than the absolute path for the relative path insertion (<<<RELATIVE-PATH>>>) when the document file itself is dropped into the editor.
Remove the toolbar button to toggle page guide visibility.
Remove feature to import legacy syntax style definition files of which format was used in CotEditor 1.x.
trivial: Update the preferences window layout.
trivial: Improve tooltips of toolbar icons to reflect the current document state.
trivial: Optimize the line number calculation in vertical text orientation.
trivial: Always enable non-contiguous layout by the normal horizontal text orientation.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 12.2 (Swift 5.3, macOS 11 SDK).
dev: Replace DifferenceKit package with native CollectionDifference.
dev: Update Yams from 3.0.1 to 4.0.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the hanging indent can be wrongly calculated when typing a word that requires user selection, such as Japanese.
trivial: Fix an issue in the sytnax style toolbar item that the menu selected blank if the current style was deleted.
trivial: Fix an issue that the i-beam for the combination of the vertical text orientation and a light theme cropped.

CotEditor 3.9.7

release: 2020-10-18

New Features

Add new AppleScript/JXA commands smarten quotes, straighten quotes, and smarten dashes for selection object.

Improvements

Optimize the performance of invisible character drawing, especially with very-long unwrapped lines.
Update Shell Script (thanks to ansimita!), Python, Ruby, Swift, and SVG syntax styles.

Fixes

Fix the jump button for the theme URL.

CotEditor 3.9.6

release: 2020-09-13

Fixes

Fix an issue that the “Open Scripts Folder” command in the script menu did not open the scripts folder for CotEditor but just the general Application Scripts folder.
Fix an issue in the find result table that the found string column truncated the text even in the middle of a character that consists of multiple Unicode characters.
Fix an issue where the line number view did not update under some specific conditions even when the line height setting is changed.
Fix the progress message when highlighting a document with a multiple replacement definition.

CotEditor 3.9.5

release: 2020-08-15

Fixes

Fix an issue that window prevented from becoming smaller than the outline items' width.
Fix an issue that some text transformation commands, such as “Make Upper Case,” also transformed the next unselected word that is identical to the selected one.
Fix an issue in the navigation bar that the open/close split editor buttons did occasionally not work.

CotEditor 3.9.4

release: 2020-08-13

Improvements

Make the document window's minimum size smaller.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 11.6.

Fixes

Fix an issue that an unremovable empty dialog could show up when performing Replace All under specific conditions.
Fix an issue in the find/replacement progress report that the progress message was not updated when nothing found.
Fix an issue in the outline menu in the navigation bar that the last separator did not appear.
Fix an issue in toolbar that menu style items were vertically squashed in the toolbar customization dialog.

CotEditor 3.9.3

release: 2020-07-18

Improvements

Significantly optimize the performance of text layout especially when pasting a relatively large amount of text.
Update JSON syntax style.
trivial: Tweak some UI styles.
dev: Update Yams from 2.0.0 to 3.0.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue in the highlighting instances of selected text that the highlight shape spread wrongly when the selected text included line breaks.
Fix an issue in the syntax style editing that some keywords that can be parsed as a YAML object, such as true or null, were not stored as a string.

CotEditor 3.9.2

release: 2020-06-28

Improvements

Suppress showing a dialog when opening a file with the “.ts” file extension as it may not be a MPEG-2 Transport Stream file but a TypeScript file.
Improve the style and behavior of the add/remove rule button in the multiple replacement window.
trivial: Delete multiple replacement rules by dropping items into the Trash.

Fixes

Fix an issue in the multiple replacement definition editing where the result order broke, or even the application crashed when reordering multiple rules at once.
Fix an issue in the editor that the cursor skipped the space just after the word when moving the cursor to the next word boundary with ⌥⇧→ or ⌥→ shortcut.
Fix an issue in theme editing that the editing color was occasionally forcibly updated in the editor's text color when an editor has the focus.
Fix an issue in theme editing that the crashed when setting one of the system's developer colors.
Fix an issue in theme editing that the option “use system color” for the selection color could not disable.
Fix an issue in theme editing that the values in the theme editor were not updated when the bundled theme currently edited is restored.
Fix an issue in the dialog for the pattern line sort that the sample line could indicate a wrong sort key scope when the sort key type is “column.”
Fix the feedback animation when dragging and dropping items in a table.
trivial: Fix an issue that the menus in toolbar expended unwantedly after customizing toolbar.
trivial: Fix some layout corruptions under macOS 11 Big Sur (beta).

CotEditor 3.9.1

release: 2020-06-14

Improvements

Increase the size of the invisible space symbol.
Adjust the position of invisible symbols in vertical text orientation.
trivial: Avoid selecting no item in the snippet setting table.

Fixes

Fix an issue in the syntax style editing that saving existing syntax styles failed.
Fix text flickering while pinch-zoom.
Fix an issue in the editor where the bottom part of the editor became occasionally not responsive when the editor is zoomed-out.
Fix an issue in the find panel fields that carriage returns (CR) were not drawn as line endings but control characters.
Fix an issue in the syntax style editing that reverting a modified bundled style through the style editor did not remove the existing user file.
Fix an issue under macOS 10.14 that the text in the About panel was black even in the Dark Mode.

CotEditor 3.9.0

release: 2020-05-27

New Features

Rewrite the invisible character drawing feature to draw alternative symbols more properly under various environments.
Add an option to draw indent guides.
Display Unicode's general category in the character inspector.

Improvements

Adjust the text baseline to draw characters vertically center in lines.
Optimize the performance of “Replace All” with a large number of matches.
Improve the performance when pasting a huge text.
Remove the text encoding option for opened documents; instead, the encoding is always detected automatically when opening an existing file.
Update the Unicode block table to the latest Unicode 13.0.0.
Duplicate lines more intelligently.
Improve the encodings list edit view.
Adjust the width of toolbar items.
Remove “vertical orientation” from the selections of the Writing Direction toolbar button.
Make borders of line number views and opacity sample tips more distinct in the high-contrast mode.
Adjust the visible area after unwrapping lines in RTL text mode.
Remove the default value of the snippet keybindings, that inserts <br /> with ⇧↩.
Update help content.
trivial: Rename “Auto-Detect,” the option detecting the file encoding automatically, to “Automatic.”
trivial: Omit surrogate pair code points in the character inspector if the character consists of multiple Unicode characters.
trivial: Adjust the drawing position of the zoomed character in the character inspector.
trivial: Update some labels in the Format pane.
trivial: Display default values as the input field's placeholder for window size setting when empty.
trivial: Remove the snippet keybindings setting migration from CotEdtiror 2.x format and earlier.
trivial: Make the identifier for document autosaving longer.
dev: Update the build environment to Xcode 11.5 (Swift 5.2).
dev: Replace YAML.framework with Yams.
dev: Remove Carthage dependency.
dev: Migrate codesign-specific build settings to .xcconfig (thanks to Yoshimasa Niwa!).

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application crashed when a hanging indent depth becomes larger than the editor area.
Fix an issue where the application hung up by extending the selection with shortcut ⌥⇧→ when the character to select is a national flag emoji.
Fix an issue where the item “Automatic” (ex. Auto-Detect) was missing in the encoding selections in the open panel.
Fix an issue with multiple cursors where extra characters were deleted when performing forward delete with selection.
Fix an issue with multiple cursors where just a single UTF-16 character was deleted instead of the whole character when the character to delete consists of multiple UTF-16 characters.
Fix an issue where the outline menu could select the wrong item while typing.
Fix an issue where the line numbers could be shifted when printing vertical text orientation documents.
Fix an issue where line endings could remain when deleting duplicate lines with multiple selections.
Fix an issue in the character inspector where the inspector was not shown when the target character is hidden due to scroll.
Fix an issue in the line number view where the line number of the current line was not bolded under a specific condition.
Fix an issue in scripting with AppleScript/JXA where the application crashed by performing string in ... command.
Fix an issue in scripting with AppleScript/JXA where the contents of a document can rarely be overwritten with the contents of another document window under very specific conditions.
Fix an issue with scripting with AppleScript/JXA where the line range command selected a wrong range when the line endings of the document are CRLF.
Fix an issue with scripting with AppleScript/JXA where selecting a single line by specifying a single integer argument to line range did not work.
Fix an issue in the editor where lines were initially wrapped at the wrong position when the text orientation is vertical.
Fix an issue where the theme color was not applied to the color of typed text in split view.
Fix an issue in the RTL text mode where the page guide disappeared when lines are unwrapped.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight did not update properly after changing some settings.
Fix an issue in the find panel's input fields where a regular expression pattern for Unicode code point was not highlighted properly when the hex contains uppercase letters.
Fix an issue in the find panel's input fields where invisible control characters were drawn in the normal text color under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the print font name in the Print pane was drawn in black even in the dark mode.
Fix an issue in the editor where the previous drawing could remain in a blank space after changing a display setting of the editor.
Fix the help button in the advanced find options view.
Fix missing localization.

CotEditor 3.8.12

release: 2020-03-08

Improvements

Include the last line break to line count.
Update “Kotlin”, “JSON”, and “SVG” syntax styles.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the horizontal scrollbar didn't appear by unwrapping lines if the document consists of a single very long line.
Fix an issue where the application could crash after parsing syntax in a large document to highlight.
Fix an issue where the overscrolling was enabled only after window is resized.
Fix an issue where the current line was just partly highlighted under specific conditions.
Fix an issue in the line number view where the line number of the selected line was not bolded under a specific condition.
Fix an issue where the find panel could not display the result table when the find string is very long.

CotEditor 3.8.11

release: 2020-02-28

Improvements

Avoid showing the rainbow cursor while parsing URLs in the editor with large contents when the “link URLs in document” option is enabled.
Improve “Snakecase” and “Camelcase” commands to handle uppercase letters with accent properly.
Improve message for syntax highlighting progress.
Improve drawing performance and general stability.
trivial: Tweak the visual notification for wrapping search.

Fixes

Fix an issue where a document window zombie appeared when the window was closed while detached character info popovers remain.
Fix an issue where a blank progress dialog for a long syntax highlighting could rarely remain when the document is updated while parsing.
Fix an issue where the \x{hhhh}, \0ooo, and \$ style character expressions in the regular expression pattern were not syntax-highlighted correctly.
Fix an issue where the application could rarely crash when printing a document.
Fix an issue where the application could rarely crash when opening a document under macOS 10.14 and earlier.

CotEditor 3.8.10

release: 2020-02-15

Improvements

Optimize the performance of the invisible character drawing, the hanging indent calculation, and the line number view drawing.
Make space to draw the invisible symbol for ZERO WIDTH SPACE (U+200B) when the “other invisible characters” option is enabled.
Enable “Move Line Down” and “Move Line Up” commands swap lines with the last empty line.
Improve general performance while typing.
Update “CSS” syntax style.
trivial: Keep the visible area after resizing a document window even if overscrolling is enabled.
trivial: Adjust the theme “Note”.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the Unicode code point field in the document inspector displayed always “not selected.”
Fix an issue where insertion points multiplied too many when adding them with ^⇧↑ or ^⇧↓ shortcut under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where default theme change in the preferences was not applied to opened documents under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where unescaping replacement string in the regular expression replacement failed with specific text patterns.
Fix an issue where the editor's line height and tab width in the opened windows did not update even the setting is changed.
Fix an issue where the rainbow cursor could appear when finding the brace pair in the latter part of a large document.
Fix an issue where the application crashed when moving lines down under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the “Sort by Pattern” with column sort key dropped the last character from the sort key string.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight remained when quickly moving selection by dragging.
Fix an issue where the writable area of newly added split editors shrank.
Fix an issue in scripting where settings some properties, such as tab width, tab expands and wrap lines, in the document creation phase were ignored.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.8.9

release: 2020-01-30

Improvements

Significantly reduce the time of the rainbow cursor after the opening of a large document by optimizing hanging indent calculation.
trivial: Optimize current line highlighting.

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 3.8.8 where the application could rarely crash immediately after opening a document window under some very specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the progress indicator for the outline menu in the navigation bar could rarely remain.

CotEditor 3.8.8

release: 2020-01-28

New Features

Add a new “Straighten Quotes” command to Edit > Substitutions menu.

Improvements

Add “Replace Quotes,” “Replace Dashes,” and “Replace Text” commands to Edit > Substitutions menu.
Restore the default window size setting in the Window preferences pane.
Enable setting multiple cursor points in snippets.
Optimize the timing of view updating in some specific views.
Optimize some background jobs.
Toggle only the checkbox in a table that the user actually clicked and ignore others when the clicked checkbox is not contained to the selected rows.
Fold license descriptions in the acknowledgments.
trivial: Tweak the visual notification for wrapping search.
dev: Replace Differ framework with DifferenceKit.
dev non-AppStore ver.: Change the Sparkle branch from “ui-separation-and-xpc” to “2.x”.

Fixes

Fix an issue on macOS 10.15 where document windows had a glitch when a search is wrapped.
Fix an issue where the font size of the line number view was occasionally not updated even when text size is changed.
Fix an issue where ⌘⇧T shortcut key assigned for “Show/Hide Tab Bar” was ignored under specific conditions
Fix an issue where the width of the inspector was occasionally not properly set.
Fix an issue where the wrong warning message displayed in the multiple replacement panel even when there is no invalid condition.
Fix a possible crash when transforming the case of selection that includes specific character order.
Fix a possible crash when a document file is modified by another process.
trivial: Fix a typo in French (Thanks to Arnaud Tanchoux!).
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.8.7

release: 2019-12-09

Improvements

Revert shortcut ⌘/ to comment-out toggle.
Add “.zprofile” and “.zlogin” extensions to “Shell Script” syntax style.

CotEditor 3.8.6

release: 2019-12-07

Improvements

Change the default shortcut for Format > Font > “Reset to Default” command to ⌘0 and let “Bigger” command accept also ⌘=.
Add shortcut ⌘/ to “Show/Hide Status Bar” command.
Add shortcut ⌘⇧T to “Show/Hide Tab Bar” command.
Avoid showing rainbow cursor when canceling the initial syntax highlight.
trivial: Modify the layout of the progress dialog and the regular expression syntax reference.
trivial: Let input fields in the Edit pane accept values without a percent sign.

Fixes

Fix an issue where creating multiple cursors by rectangular selection failed under macOS 10.15.
Fix an issue where the selection highlight color in inactive windows could make text hard to read under macOS 10.14–10.15.
Fix an issue where the progress message by find/replacement was not updated when no occurrence found.
Fix a possible crash when an invalid color code is input to the color code panel.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.8.5

release: 2019-11-14

Improvements

Uncomment comment lines even if the delimiters locate after some indent.
Raise an alert when performing find (or replacement) with “in selection” option while no text is selected.
Change the Console font to monospaced.
Dim the Console content area during the incremental search.
Accept importing custom syntax styles with “.yml” extension.
Avoid re-parsing syntax highlight when the appearance is switched.
Support Dark Mode in the help.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.
trivial: Tweak some terminology in the menu.
trivial: Adjust the pinch-zoom pitch.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the text color in the status bar was sometimes not updated immediately after switching window appearance.
Fix an issue where parsing syntax style files could fail.
Fix an issue where uncommenting inline comments failed when multiple cursors locate in the same line.
Avoid rainbow cursor when about to display the Text menu while selecting large number of text.
Update PHP and Julia syntax styles to remove duplicated keywords.

CotEditor 3.8.4

release: 2019-10-23

Improvements

Insert soft tabs to all insertion points when typing the tab key.

Fixes

Fix an issue on macOS 10.13-14 that the application became unstable with some specific actions when the cursor locates the end of the document.

CotEditor 3.8.3

release: 2019-10-20

Improvements

Restore all of the last cursors on the window restoration.
Highlight matching braces for all cursors.
Adjust the printing area of vertical text orientation.
Update JSON syntax style by adding “.resolved” extension.

Fixes

Fix area to draw text on printing, especially for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Fix an issue on macOS 10.13-14 where spaces at the end of the document could not be deleted by delete key.
Fix an issue on macOS 10.13-14 where performing return key just after an open bracket at the end of the document made the application freeze.
Fix an issue where the editor theme for newly opened windows did not match to the window appearance when the system appearance was changed after the application launch.
Fix an issue where a highlighting indicator showed up at a wrong location when pressing the enter key just before a closing bracket.
trivial: Fix French localization.

CotEditor 3.8.2

release: 2019-10-14

Fixes

Add an additional workaround to detour the bug in macOS 10.13-14 that crashes/freezes the application.

CotEditor 3.8.1

release: 2019-10-11

Fixes

Address a critical issue where the application could crash under macOS 10.13-14.
Fix an issue that the documents opened together were not opened as a single window with multiple tabs.

CotEditor 3.8.0

release: 2019-10-09

New Features

Add “Appearance” option in the Appearance preferences pane to change document window appearance whatever the system appearance is (only on macOS 10.14 and later).
Add a new theme “Anura (Dark)”.

Improvements

Change the system requirement to macOS 10.13 High Sierra and later.
Improve the theme switching algorithm between light and dark appearances.
Keep multiple cursors after pasting multiple lines.
Update the result table of “Find All” even when no substring was found.
Adjust drawing of the alternative character for invisible control characters.
Adjust text baseline of input fields in the find panel when a fallback font is used.
Always enable Left to Right button in Writing Direction toolbar button.
Change the way to count words for stability.
Update “TOML” syntax style to support array of tables (Thanks to Takuto ASAKURA!)
dev: Update build environment to Xcode 11.1 (Swift 5.1, macOS 10.15 SDK).

Fixes

Fix the selection movement direction after ⌥⇧← or ⌥⇧→ shortcut.
Fix an issue where scripting commands convert and reinterpret failed.
Fix an issue where the color panel for theme editing could occasionally not change.
Fix an issue where the appearance of Acknowledgements window was not updated when user changed the system appearance after the launch.

CotEditor 3.7.8

release: 2019-06-30

Fixes

Fix an issue where the editor could not scroll horizontally under specific conditions.

CotEditor 3.7.7

release: 2019-06-25

New Features

Add a new option to the Appearance pane to disable ligatures.

Improvements

Keep last opacity state of restored document windows.
Update behavior of Opt+Arrow shortcut series.

Fixes

Fix an issue where find result was unwantedly collapsed when resizing the find panel.
Fix an issue where hanging indent was not applied to the printed document.
Workaround the issue where an editor resizing required a too long time.
Fix a possible crash in the Appearance preferences pane.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.7.6

release: 2019-06-18

New Features

Add new variable “file content” to File Drop feature to insert the file content when the dropped file is a text file.

Improvements

Apply the change of “show other invisible characters” option immediately to the editors.
Add “Hide extension” option to the save dialog.
Use the system appearance in the input candidate window even when the theme has a dark background color.
Give some feedback about the search result in VoiceOver.
Improve the behavior of Opt+Arrow shortcut series to stop the by punctuation marks, such as . and :.
Hide unused items in the font panel toolbar.
Optimize the performance of finding the matching brace to highlight.
Optimize the performance of line number drawing.
Optimize the performance of hanging indent calculation.

Fixes

Fix an issue where unwanted whitespace was added for variation selector U+FE0E when control characters are visible.
Fix an issue with scripting where regular expression anchors, such as ^ or $, did not match lines.
Fix an issue where the “Writing Direction” toolbar item did not work if it overflows from the visible toolbar area.
Fix an issue where U+FEFF cannot be input via “Input in Unicode hex” command.
Fix a possible crash with continuous U+FEFF characters.
Fix a possible crash on macOS 10.12.

CotEditor 3.7.5

release: 2019-05-27

Improvements

Select the current editor's font in font panel when display it.
Update Swift syntax style to support Swift 5.1.
Underline URLs in printed document also if “Link URLs in document” option is enabled.
dev: Update Differ framework to 1.4.3.

Fixes

Fix performance regression due to a bug fix in CotEditor 3.7.4.
Fix an issue where the snippet texts were still occasionally not editable from the preferences pane.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.7.4

release: 2019-05-18

Improvements

Add French localization (thanks to Aurélien Roy!).

Fixes

Fix an issue where the snippet texts were occasionally not editable from the preferences pane.
Fix an issue where the Unicode character name for U+FEFF (ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE) was empty.
Fix an issue where the application did crash when the selected text contains some specific control characters.
Fix an issue where the word completion suggested words start with letters in the middle of the typed word.
Fix an issue where needless live document analysis performed even when the status bar and inspector are invisible.
Fix missing localization.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.7.3

release: 2019-04-26

Improvements

“Input in unicode hex” now supports multi-cursor editing.
Make font size of outline view customizable.

Fixes

Fix an issue where user settings could not be overwritten to export when the same filename already exists.
Fix an issue where clear buttons in the find panel's text fields could overlap with scroll bar areas.
Fix syntax style validator.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.7.2

release: 2019-04-04

Improvements

Make the i-beam cursor more legible in vertical text orientation and dark background theme.
Use monospace numbers for line numbers in Find All result table.
Optimize performance highlighting found matches.
dev: Update build environment to Xcode 10.2 (Swift 5).
dev: Update Differ framework to 1.4.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue under macOS 10.12 where application hung up if some specific toolbar items are visible.
Fix an issue where the “Discard Changes” and “Cancel” buttons in the dialog for encoding reinterpretation performed oppositely (Thanks to Aurélien Roy!).
Fix an issue where color code editor was invisible under macOS 10.12.
Fix an issue where the Go to Line command did not jump to the input number of line when performed by clicking “Go” button.
Fix an issue where change kana scripting command did not work.

CotEditor 3.7.1

release: 2019-02-23

Improvements

Highlight all lines that contain one of the multi-insertion points as current lines.
Insert the text content of .textClipping files when dropped.

Fixes

Fix an issue where trailing whitespaces before the insertion points could be wrongly removed on the first auto-saving.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.7.0

release: 2019-02-14

New Features

Multi-cursor editing.
Add “Opacity” toolbar item to change editor's opacity.
Add “Surround Selection With” > “Square Brackets” menu item.

Improvements

Restore more UI state on window restoration.
Delete sequential paces character by character when they are not located at the beginning of a line even if “Expand tabs to spaces” option is enabled.
Keep selections after performing “Duplicate Lines.”
Remember the last used custom characters for “Surround Selection with Custom Characters” action.
trivial: Improve toolbar color.

Fixes

Fix an issue where “Replace All” could fail when the text to find is a combining character such as a diacritical mark.
Fix an issue where lines did not wrap correctly with vertical text orientation.
Fix an issue where the last syntax style was not applied when an unsaved document was restored from the last session.
Fix an issue where auto-completion could cancel suddenly under a restricted condition.
Fix an issue where the line wrap width of a split view could be set shorter than the actual view if scroll bars are set to be always visible.
Fix an issue where the year in the print header or console prompt was displayed wrongly in specific days (Thanks to Frédéric Blondiau!).
Fix an issue where closed windows remained on the memory.
Address an issue where selected ranges were set wrongly after updating the document due to an external modification.
Fix a possible issue where word counting could be stuck.

CotEditor 3.6.12

release: 2019-01-15

Improvements

Update syntax style for “SVG”.
Update cot command-line tool:
- Fix an issue where stack trace displayed when using --wait option with some clients other than Terminal.app.
- Fix an issue where --column could misplace the insertion point when a negative number was given.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the snippet insertion did not work.
Fix an issue where theme change did not apply to opened documents under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where user theme was not applied when windows restored on macOS 10.12.
Fix an issue on macOS 10.12 where the initial theme editor was empty when the preferences window switches to Appearance pane.
Improve stability.

CotEditor 3.6.11

release: 2019-01-05

Improvements

Live update selection highlight in line number views.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash when deleting the last character in a large document.

CotEditor 3.6.10

release: 2019-01-01

New Features

Add syntax style for “Kotlin”.

Improvements

Change counting method of the cursor location and column to 1-based (formerly 0-based).
Optimize syntax highlight application so that the time displaying the rainbow cursor reduces significantly with a large document.
Make editing multiple replacement definitions undoable.
Syntax highlight regular expression patterns in the syntax style editor, multiple replacement definitions, and the custom sort dialog.
Move focus to the editor when lines are selected by clicking line numbers.
Apply update of “Line numbers”, “Page guide” and “invisible characters” visibility options in the preferences immediately to opened documents.
Suppress the dialog asking if you want to keep the document when an unsaved empty document is about to close, and silently discard the auto-saved backup file.
Change the label of the option “Count each line ending as one character” in General pane to “Ignore line endings when counting characters” (the value reversed).
Enable the “Share” button in toolbar also in the Text Only mode.
Display also mapping conflicts of interpreters in the syntax style file mapping conflict dialog.
Make composition views for the Share feature document-modal also in macOS 10.12.
Disable “Hide Toolbar” command for the preferences window.
Improve general performance.
Update German localization (Thanks to J-rg!).
Update cot command-line tool:
- Accept a negative value for --column option to count from the end of the line.
- Change --column count from 0-based to 1-based.
- Improve error message when failed.
- Fix an issue where the last empty line was ignored when specifying the cursor position with --line option.
trivial: Make the minimum width of outline inspector wider.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the final number of the replacement in the progress dialog was occasionally underrated.
Fix an issue where the cursor could not be set at the end of the document via AppleScript or cot command.
Fix an issue where syntax highlight was not updated in a specific condition when deleted.
Fix an issue where line number views did not update when the editor is scrolled via script.
Fix the preferences pane switching animation under macOS 10.13 and earlier.
trivial: Fix a potential issue where last empty line number could be drawn at the first line position under specific conditions.
trivial: Fix an issue where editor occasionally scrolled unintendedly when an arrow key is pressed.

CotEditor 3.6.9

release: 2018-12-12

Improvements

Optimize syntax highlighting.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application crashed when splitting editors.
Fix an issue where a part of line numbers disappeared when Japanese text is being inputted.
Fix an issue where the context menu did not open under macOS 10.13 and earlier if the user has scripts.
trivial: Fix font style of“Italic” button in the outline menu editor.

CotEditor 3.6.8

release: 2018-12-08

New Features

Add syntax style for “TOML”.

Improvements

Improve the performance of text replacement significantly.
Improve the line number view fundamentally so that all unwanted behaviors after macOS Mojave disappear.
Select the setting selected in the last session when opening the Multiple Replacement window.
Enable the noncontiguous layout only with large documents.
- This change may improve the editor's drawing and scrolling behaviors.
Improve general performance and stability.
dev: Stop LineNumberView inheriting NSRulerView.

Fixes

Fix the cursor location by changing the selection with shortcut ⌘←.
Fix an issue where the rainbow cursor could appear when cancelling syntax highlight with a large document multiple times.

CotEditor 3.6.7

release: 2018-11-27

Improvements

Change not to highlight occurrences of the selection when there are more than 100.
Update validation pane in the syntax style editor:
- Now, validation is performed automatically when the pane switched to “Validation”.
trivial: Remove “Restore Defaults” button in the syntax style editor if the style has no defaults.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix an issue where cot command failed to open paths or stdin containing backslash character.
Fix an issue on CotEditor 3.6.5 where right-click no longer opens the context menu under macOS 10.13 and earlier.
Fix an issue where the thickness of the line numbers view did not grow enough with a large number of lines.
Fix an issue where the syntax style validator ignored unbalanced block comment delimiters that should be an error.
Fix the preferences pane switching animation under macOS 10.13 and earlier.
Fix possible crashes.
Fix minor issues in the syntax style editor.
Fix some localized strings.

CotEditor 3.6.6

release: 2018-11-20

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 3.6.5 where the syntax highlight did not update while typing.
Fix an issue where preferences panes could not change under macOS 10.12.
Add missing localizations.

CotEditor 3.6.5

release: 2018-11-19

New Features

New option for cursor style (Customize the behavior in Appearances preference pane).

Improvements

Avoid drawing variant sequence as invisible control characters.
Make line number view opaque if lines are unwrapped on macOS 10.14 to avoid drawing the editor's text over the line numbers.
Revoke the line counting behavior change with VoiceOver in CotEditor 3.6.3.
trivial: Draw vertical tabs as general invisible control characters.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the editor area could still tuck under the line number view.
Fix an issue where the line number of the last empty line disappeared when lines are not wrapped and scrolled.
trivial: Fix a weird view expansion on the first transition to the General preferences pane.
trivial: Fix an issue on Mojave where the text selection highlight could remain between lines.

CotEditor 3.6.4

release: 2018-11-10

New Features

Add a command “Select Word” (⌘D) to Edit menu.

Improvements

trivial: Display default setting values as the input field's placeholder for instance highlight delay option when empty.

Fixes

Fix an issue where editor area could be tuck under the line number view.
Fix an issue where changing the selection by shortcut ⇧→ just after shortcut ⌘⇧← expanded the selection to a wrong direction.
Fix an issue where page guide did not update when font changed.

CotEditor 3.6.3

release: 2018-10-29

Improvements

Assign ⌘⇧[ shortcut to “Show Next Tab” command instead of “Surround Selection with Brackets” command.
Treat a logical line, which is delimited by line ending characters, as one line in VoiceOver, instead of a visual (wrapped) line.
- Thereby, users can now also know the current line number by pressing VoiceOver shortcut VO+F3.
Improve the accessibility of user interface elements with VoiceOver.
Avoid performing custom sort with an invalid parameter.
Display default setting values as the input field's placeholder in preferences window when empty.
trivial: Move the focus to the target input field when the clear button in the find panel was pressed.

Fixes

Fix an issue where selected inspector pane was not stored.
Fix an issue where initial display area shifted unwantedly if line numbers are displayed lines are unwrapped.
Fix an issue where script name was not displayed in Console.
Fix an issue where the writing direction (RtL) was not delivered to printing.
Fix layout in some localized environment.

CotEditor 3.6.2

release: 2018-10-14

New Features

Let the input fields in the find panel accept pinch-zoom.

Improvements

Avoid selecting deleted spaces when undoing a soft tab deletion.
Make the credits view in About panel dark in the Dark Mode.
Add “.cxx” extension to “C++” syntax style.
Adjust the width of line number views.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the cursor position did not restore correctly after repeatedly undoing & redoing bracket insertion with the “Automatically insert closing brackets and quotes” option enabled.
Fix an issue where editor scrolled unwantedly after pasting something at a latter half part of the document with “Link URLs in document” option enabled.
Fix an issue where URL link ranges expanded even if non-URL-related lines is pasted just after an URL.
Fix an issue where the application could rarely crash under specific conditions.

CotEditor 3.6.1

release: 2018-10-04

New Features

Add “Match only whole word” option to advanced find options (Default: off).
Add syntax style for “Properties” (mainly for Java).

Improvements

AppStore ver.: Enable the enhanced runtime protection on macOS 10.14 Mojave also by the MAS version.
Make the i-beam cursor more legible in a dark background theme.
Sync sidebar width among tabbed windows.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the initial window size could be easily forgotten.
Fix an issue cot command failed if the client terminal is non-scriptable.
Fix an issue where the application could rarely crash on reopening documents under specific conditions.
Fix the tab window switching via a shortcut key in macOS 10.14.

CotEditor 3.6.0

release: 2018-09-25

New Features

Support Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 Mojave.
Add a new theme “Dendrobates (Dark)”.
Add new commands to transform selections to snake case, camel case, or pascal case.
Add “Emoji & Symbols” toolbar item.
Add an option to select the default writing direction among left-to-right, right-to-left, and vertical (Customize in Window preferences pane).
non-AppStore ver.: The non-AppStore application binary is now notarized by Apple.

Improvements

Change the system requirement to macOS 10.12.2 Sierra and later.
Update cot command-line tool to return the focus to the client terminal window again after --wait.
Abandon the ancient ODB editor support.
trivial: Improve the high contrast mode support.
trivial: Optimize the performance of line number drawing.
dev: Update build environment to Xcode 10 (Swift 4.2, macOS 10.14 SDK).
non-AppStore ver.: Enable Enhanced Runtime protection.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix an issue where theme was not applied to document print when the print theme setting is “Same as Document's Setting”.
Fix an issue where “Copy as Rich Text” command lost the style information when paste to some specific applications, such as Pages.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight could blink while pinch zoom.

CotEditor 3.5.4

release: 2018-09-18

Fixes

Fix an issue where toolbar items did not reflect their state on macOS 10.12 or earier.
Fix margin around the Tab toolbar icon on macOS 10.12 or earier.

CotEditor 3.5.3

release: 2018-09-08

Fixes

Fix an issue where the “Replace All” command didn't work on CotEditor 3.5.2.

CotEditor 3.5.2

release: 2018-09-07

Improvements

Avoid editor can be edited while a dialog covers it.
Update YAML syntax style for more reliable highlight.
Update Swift syntax style by fixing outline extraction.
trivial Adjust initial document window size.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the multi replacement feature exported definitions without its file extension.
Fix an issue where “Hide extension” checkbox in the setting export dialog was ignored.
Fix an issue where an unhidable empty progress dialog was displayed if another dialog was displayed when the task started.
Address an issue where the application could rarely crash during syntax highlighting.

CotEditor 3.5.1

release: 2018-08-28

Improvements

Change the find behavior of the simple Find/Replace command with “In selection” option to find a match only in the selection.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the initial window size could be easily forgotten.
Fix an issue where the font button in the toolbar did not work.
Fix an issue where the inputting text that is not finalized yet could be wrongly highlighted.
Fix an issue where some Unicode block names were not displayed in character info popover.
Address an issue where the application could rarely crash during syntax highlighting.

CotEditor 3.5.0

release: 2018-08-15

New Features

New toolbar icons.
Highlight the same substrings of the selection automatically (Customize the behavior in General preferences pane).
New option to allow overscrolling (Customize the behavior in Window preferences pane).
Enable to change the tab width of a specific document to a desired number.
Let the input fields in the find panel accept text scaling commands, such as “Bigger”, “Smaller” and “Reset to Default”.

Improvements

Add command “Select All Find Matches” in Find menu.
Improve the editor's scrolling behavior to scroll along the predominant axis.
Add menu item to toggle the visibility of the sidebar inspector.
Remove some setting options for windows such as window size and visibilities of document inspector and status bar from Window preferences pane.
- From now on, the latest change to a window will be inherited to future windows just like other standard Cocoa applications.
Remove “length” display in the status bar.
Remove feature to change only the frontmost editor's opacity temporary.
- From this, view opacity property on AppleScript is also deprecated.
Keep the cursor position as possible after the editor content is updated to the latest version modified by another process.
Display current user's system-wide setting for window tabbing in the menu on the Window pane.
Optimize the performance of character counting.
Improve general stability of the print operation.
Optimize auto URL detection with paste to a large document.
Update Python syntax style for Python 3.7.
Update Swift syntax style for Swift 4.2 and some improvements.
trivial Update some Japanese localization.
trivial Update editor opacity sample tips.
trivial non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix an unlocalized text.

CotEditor 3.4.4

release: 2018-07-08

Fixes

Address an issue where the application could rarely crash on syntax highlighting.
Fix a typo in Italian localization.

CotEditor 3.4.3

release: 2018-06-26

Fixes

Fix an issue where the help button in the multiple replace window did not link to the suitable help page.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight was opaque in split editors although the editor background is non-opaque.
Fix an issue where unwanted debug log was printed in the Console.
Fix an issue where “Show File Mapping Conflicts” menu item was always available even no conflict exists.
Improve general stability.
Fix an unlocalized label.

CotEditor 3.4.2

release: 2018-06-05

Improvements

trivial: Let input fields in preferences support dark mode (hidden option on the current systems).
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix an issue under OS X 10.11 where the application crashed with the auto completion.
Fix an issue where some syntax keywords were not highlighted correctly.
Improve general stability.
trivial: Fix drawing of capsules for variables in the insertion format setting field.

CotEditor 3.4.1

release: 2018-05-28

Improvements

Copy also the executability from the file permission of the original document when duplicating a document.
trivial Improve drawing of capsules for variables in the insertion format setting field.
trivial: Adjust preferences panes layout.

Fixes

Fix an issue under OS X 10.11 where the application could crash when an item in the outline inspector is clicked.
Fix an issue where the word completion of which word starts with double underscores (e.g. __init__) skipped the second underscore.
Fix an issue where the application could rarely crash while typing.
AppStore ver.: Fix an issue where the options for the software updater for non AppStore versions were wrongly displayed in the General preferences pane.

CotEditor 3.4.0

release: 2018-05-15

New Features

Replace matches with preset replacement definition (Find > Multiple Replace).
Add outline menu to side bar.
Select tabbed window with ⌘+number.
Parse regular expression pattern in find string field in regular expression mode:
- Syntax highlight.
- Highlight matching brace by moving cursor.
- Select the range surrounded by a brace pair by double-clicking a brace.
Add a new theme “Resinifictrix”.

Improvements

Give haptic feedback on pinch zoom when the scale becomes 100%.
Adjust background color for selected range in inactive editor to avoid unreadable text, especially by a dark theme.
Make the current line highlight semi-transparent if editor opacity is not 100%.
Ignore brackets escaped with \ on bracket pair highlight.
Restore selected inspector pane on window restoration.
Move “Get Info” and “Show Incompatible Characters” menu items into newly added View > Inspector submenu.
Update highlight style of icons in the side inspector.
Enable importing multiple syntax/theme setting files at once.
Import syntax style files via drag and drop to the Installed Syntax Styles area.
Avoid merging multiple separators next to each other in the navigation menu into a single separator.
Delete the feature alerting inconsistent encoding declaration in document on saving.
Remove ⌘1 shortcut for Console from default key-binding settings.
Avoid switching to inactive tabbed window only to show a syntax highlighting indicator.
Remove the workaround for the issue of editor scrolling on early macOS High Sierra that was introduced on CotEditor 3.2.4.
Optimize syntax highlighting performance.
Update “Java” syntax style by adding term var (Thanks to Marc Prud'hommeaux!)
trivial Use monospace digits where suitable.
trivial non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix a possible crash with continuous find/replacement.
Fix an issue where the font settings cannot be changed on macOS 10.12.
Fix an issue where the cursor position did not follow the line when Move Up command was performed at the end of the document.
Fix an issue where the find result in the input field of the find panel did not clear when a new find string was set from the find history menu.
Fix an issue where the sidebar inspector did close inward when the pane was switched after opening the sidebar outward.
Fix an issue where snippet keybindings could not be restored to the default correctly.
Fix an issue where progress spinner for outline menu displayed unwantedly on document opening.
trivial: Fix some UI text.

CotEditor 3.3.5

release: 2018-03-10

Improvements

Update “Swift” syntax style for Swift 4.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue where application could rarely crash under specific environment on saving.
Fix an issue where the domain part of URLs was ignored when a favicon was dropped from Safari to editor.
Update “YAML” syntax style to fix outline extraction with a specific case.

CotEditor 3.3.4

release: 2018-03-03

Improvements

Update “Swift” syntax style for Swift 4.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue where lossy saving was failed.
Fix an issue where ⌘← was ignored when the cursor locates at the end of the document.
Fix an issue where save dialog layout corrupted when toggling the visibility of the file browser.
Fix an issue where no alert was raised on saving even when a document contains lossy yen signs.
Fix an issue where document syntax was parsed twice on file open.
Fix a possible crash on print.

CotEditor 3.3.3

release: 2018-02-25

New Features

Add an option “Indent with Tab key” to the Edit pane in preferences.

Improvements

Change the behavior of ⌘← so that the cursor moves first to the beginning of the visual lines, then to the column right after indentation, and finally to the beginning of the line.
Remove “Open Hidden” command (Use “Show hidden files” option in the open dialog instead).
Display an open dialog on launch if so set even when iCloud storage is disabled.
Improve stability on text encoding change.
Refine dialog messages on text encoding change.
Change sidebar behavior to close inward when it was opened inward because of insufficient space.
Avoid requiring high power GPU use.
trivial: Hide insertion point in shortcut input fields in the Key Binding pane.
trivial: Set a spoken name of CotEditor.
trivial: Add enablesAsynchronousSaving hidden default key that enables asynchronous saving.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework.

Fixes

Fix a long-standing issue where incompatible characters could not be detected when the length of converted document text is changed.
Fix an issue where key-binding setting field sometimes ignored user input.
Fix an issue where wrong file creation date and file permission could be displayed in the document inspector.
Fix an issue where document files did not forget vertical orientation state when once set before.
Fix an issue where the encoding selected in the open dialog last time was unwantedly applied to the newly opened document when a document opened with the open dialog previously had already opened.
Fix an issue where menu item title for “Horizontal” (in Format > Writing Direction) was displayed as “Vertical” in Japanese localization.

CotEditor 3.3.2

release: 2018-02-12

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 3.3.1 where the application could crash on window close.
Fix an issue where application crashed when performing “Find All” with the regular expression and without grouping (Thanks to @akimach!).

CotEditor 3.3.1

release: 2018-02-12

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application crashed on launch under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the iCloud storage was not enabled.
Fix arrows in the navigation bar on the vertical text mode.

CotEditor 3.3.0

release: 2018-02-09

New Features

iCloud document.
Open a document in the existing Untitled window that was created automatically on an open/reopen event, if exists.
New feature “Sort by pattern,” which enables sort selected lines by specific column or fully freely using the regular expression.
Add new setting option “Reopen windows from the last session on launch” in General pane.
Add new setting option “including whitespace-only lines” for “trim trailing whitespace” command in General pane.
Introduce “Right to Left” writing direction by changing the direction from Format > Writing Direction menu.
More integrated Share feature:
- Share documents with other people through iCloud drive with “Add People” command in the File > Share menu.
- Enable sharing a document that has not been saved yet.
- Remove the feature that shares document content text from the File menu (You can still share selected text from the context menu).
- Other small improvements.
Add new commands “Half-width to Full-width” and “Full-width to Half-width” to Text > Transformations menu.
Add Portuguese localization (thanks to BR Lingo!).
Add the following encodings to the encoding list (To activate new encodings, restore default once in Preferences > Format > Edit List.):
- Thai (Windows, DOS)
- Thai (ISO 8859-11)

Improvements

Change the system requirement to OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later.
Add clear button to the input fields in the find panel.
Gather the “open a new document” “on launch” and “when CotEditor becomes active” options and create new “When nothing else is open:” option.
Enable “shift right” and “shift left” commands to process multiple selections.
Scroll console view after getting a new message to make it visible.
Display sharing window within the target document window.
Swap position of “View” with “Format” menu to conform to the Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
Move the menu item changing the text orientation into Format > Writing Direction.
Display full encoding name in the status bar instead of the IANA charset name.
Add tooltips to the Unicode normalization forms in Text menu.
Append “Option-Command-T” shortcut to “Show/Hide Toolbar” menu item.
Remove “Color Code Panel” command from the “Window” menu (use “Edit Color Code…” command in “Text” menu instead).
Remove “share find text with other applications” option.
Restore the last viewed preference pane when Preferences is opened.
Add an input field for the editor opacity setting.
Adjust scroll after toggling line wrap.
Add scroll margin to the right side of find panel fields dynamically, so that entire inputs can be seen even when find/replacement result is shown.
Update Python syntax style:
- Fix highlight of string and bytes literals.
Tweak acknowledgments window design.
Update Help contents style.
Some minor UI improvements and fixes.
Update Japanese localization to conform with the modern macOS localization rules.
Update the internal source code to Swift 4.
non-AppStore ver.: Now, the application updater (Sparkle) can download and update CotEditor automatically, as like before CotEditor was Sandboxed.
- This feature can actually be used first updating CotEditor 3.3.0 to CotEditor 3.3.1 or later.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the word suggestion in the Touch Bar cannot insert a word starts with a symbol correctly, and, therefore, a workaround was added on CotEditor 3.2.3.
Fix an issue where character inspector could expand vertically too much with some specific characters.
Fix an issue where invisible symbols for control characters were not drawn in input fields in find panel.
Fix scroll position in the help viewer on jumping to a help page from CotEditor.
Fix some unlocalized text.

CotEditor 3.2.8

release: 2018-01-22

Fixes

Fix an issue where CotEditor occasionally failed sending the standard input to a UNIX script launched from the Script menu.
Fix an issue where the custom “Surround Selection With” command in Text menu did not use the last input when OK button is pressed.
Fix an issue where the editing state dots in the installed style list was not updated after editing syntax style.

CotEditor 3.2.7

release: 2017-12-29

Improvements

Spread background drawing over paper width on printing.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the find panel was over expanded when performing “Find All” with a long find string.
Fix an issue where the file size in the status bar was not updated after saving.
Fix an issue where the find panel didn't select the previous field with Shift + Tab keys.
Fix an issue where the application frozen by opening the File Mapping Conflicts list when filename conflict exists.

CotEditor 3.2.6

release: 2017-12-11

Fixes

Fix an issue where backslashes in replacement strings were not unescaped correctly.
Fix an issue where items in the Script menu were not sorted by prefix numbers.
Fix a possible crash on handling documents with an invalid shebang.
Fix Japanese localization.

CotEditor 3.2.5

release: 2017-11-28

Improvements

Some minor UI improvements.

Fixes

Fix an issue where a vertical orientation document broke the layout on printing.
Fix an issue where the syntax highlighting indicator could display twice.
Fix an issue where the separator was selected meaninglessly in the Window pane if the window tabbing setting was set to “Manually”.
Fix an issue where editor's text orientation was not cascaded to the print operation when the window was restored from the last session.
Fix the line-wrapping behavior when a line contains a long unbreakable word.
Fix some missing localized strings.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.2.4

release: 2017-11-05

Improvements

Keep showing the console when CotEditor becomes inactive.
Make the Key-Bindings for “Bigger” and “Smaller” actions in Font menu customizable.
Change to display the first line number even the document is empty.
Rename “Incompatible Characters” toolbar item to “Incompatibles”.
Some minor UI improvements and fixes.

Fixes

High Sierra: Workaround a system issue where editor views could occasionally not scroll to the end of the document under specific environments on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
- for advanced users: This workaround may affect rendering performance by large size documents, because the workaround disables non-contiguous layout on High Sierra (The non-contiguous layout are still used on lower versions). The workaround will be removed in the future when the bug origin is resolved. You can forcibly enable non-contiguous layout support on High Sierra by setting the hidden default key enableNonContiguousLayoutOnHighSierra to YES in Terminal, although this key is actually for debug-use.
Fix an issue where “Reset to Default” action in Font menu was ignored.
Fix an issue where matching brace was highlighted unwontedly also by text finding.
Fix an issue where the encoding and the line endings in the status bar were occasionally not displayed.
Fix an issue where the application froze by getting the content of a large document via the Script menu.
Fix an issue where the second value of the printed time in the console was not sexagesimal.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.2.3

release: 2017-10-22

Improvements

Disable toggling sidebar while the tab overview mode on High Sierra.
Update “CSS” syntax style:
- Fix an issue where keywords were highlighted incorrectly.
Some minor improvements and fixes.

Fixes

Fix an issue where UNIX scripts could fail getting the content of the document.
Fix an issue where font change in the preferences pane could be ignored.
Fix a potential issue where syntax keywords could be highlighted incorrectly if whitespaces accidentally get into keywords definition.
Workaround an issue where word suggestion in the Touch Bar cannot insert a word starts with a symbol correctly.
Workaround an issue where the application could crash on document auto-saving.

CotEditor 3.2.2

release: 2017-10-01

New Features

Add new NewDocument option to CotEditorXOutput for UNIX Scripting to put output string to a newly created document.

Improvements

Improve Replace All action:
- Avoid recoloring after Replace All if no text replaced.
- Improve the progress indicator.
Change to highlight matching braces just like Xcode.
- No more beep for unbalanced braces.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
- Add “.pac” extension.
Update build environment to Xcode 9 (SDK macOS 10.13).

Fixes

Fix an issue where the Key Binding setting tables were empty on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Fix an issue where current line highlight was occasionally too wide when line height is 1.0.
Fix an issue where text selection highlight could remain between lines.
Fix an issue where the theme customization was not applied immediately.
Fix an issue where the hanging-indent was not updated in specific cases.

CotEditor 3.2.1

release: 2017-08-26

Improvements

Adjust character inspector position for vertical tab.
Update cot command-line tool:
- Avoid creating an extra blank document if cot command creates a new window.
- Fix an issue where launching the application with --background option didn't make CotEditor visible.
Adjust line height calculation.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.18.1.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the File Drop settings couldn't be saved.
Fix an issue where the regular expression didn't handle \v meta-character correctly.
Fix an issue where the selection of encoding menu in toolbar didn't restore to the previous one when encoding reinterpretation was failed.
Address an issue where the application could crash on document saving or text replacement.
AppStore ver.: Fix an issue where acknowledgement window was empty.

CotEditor 3.2.0

release: 2017-07-15

New Features

Improve File Drop feature:
- Now, you can add a file drop setting only for a specific syntax style.
- Add description field to the setting table.
- Draw capsule for variables in the insertion format setting field.
- Update the default file drop settings.
Now, key binding snippets can set cursor position.
Add “Surround Selection With” actions to “Text” menu.
Add a new AppleScript/JXA command write to console so that users can insert own message to the CotEditor's console.
Add syntax style for “Fortran”.

Improvements

Change syntax style detection behavior to set to “None” style if no appropriate style can be found on file opening.
Significantly improve the performance of “Replace All” with a large document.
Avoid hiding console panel when CotEditor becomes not the frontmost application.
Reduce highlight parsing time with large size document.
Improve performance of closing large size document.
Improve drawing performance of a large size document with a non-opaque background (Not enough good as an opaque one but still better than before).
Add hidden “Reload All Themes/Styles” menu item to theme/syntax style action menus in Preferences (visible with Option key).
Enable changing text size with a single stroke by pressing and holding Touch Bar's Text Size button.
Improve invisible character drawing on a non-opaque view.
Improve auto-brackets/quotes insertion behavior with multiple selections.
Improve the setting file naming rule for when the name overwraps with an existing setting.
Improve condition to insert a closing quote automatically.
Improve the encoding declaration detection.
Update “Ruby” syntax style to fix commands highlight.
Update “MATLAB” syntax style to fix strings highlight.
Remove less useful “Inline script menu items into contextual menu” option.
Update German localization (Thanks to J-rg!).
And some minor improvements and fixes.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could hang up when lots of tabbed windows are about open.
Fix an issue where the selections after “Replace All” in selection shifted one character.
Fix an issue where the document syntax style could be back to the default if the current style was set manually and the document was modified by another process.
Fix an issue where the status bar stopped updating after toggling the inspector sidebar.
Fix an issue where the “Cancel” button in the dialog shown when changing the Auto Save setting in General pane didn't revert the actual setting state.
Fix an issue where author of a theme was not shown in the Appearance pane.
Fix an issue where width and height in the window size setting window were swapped.
Fix an issue where current line highlight occasionally blinked unwontedly.
Fix a possible crash on highlighting matching brace.
Fix few memory leaks.

CotEditor 3.1.8

release: 2017-03-15

Improvements

Add “.swift” extension to file types treaded as CotEditor script.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.17.0.

Fixes

Update cot command-line tool:
- Fix an issue where files cannot be opened if the default Python on macOS is version 3.x.
- Fix a possible hang under specific environments.

CotEditor 3.1.7

release: 2017-03-03

Fixes

Fix an issue on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar where the application crashed immediately after launch.

CotEditor 3.1.6

release: 2017-03-02

Improvements

Update Python syntax style for Python 3.6.
Improve line number drawing.

Fixes

Fix an issue on OS X 10.11 where the application could crash on saving a document that contains incompatible characters.
Fix an issue on OS X 10.11 where “No incompatible characters were found.” message in the incompatible characters pane didn't hide even when incompatible characters exist.
Fix an issue where editor view didn't scroll by dragging on the line number view when the view is zoomed out.
Fix an issue where a large amount of scrolling down didn't jump to the end of the target.
Fix an issue with syntax style editor where a newly added row wasn't focused automatically.

CotEditor 3.1.5

release: 2017-02-22

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash by auto-completion on OS X 10.10.

CotEditor 3.1.4

release: 2017-02-20

New Features

Update cot command-line tool:
- Enable using wildcard for file path argument.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application crashed by the Highlight command under the condition when the find string is a invalid regular expression pattern even the regular expression is turned off.
Fix an issue where the application could crash on El Capitan when a side inspector is about to open.
Fix an issue on the text search where the single text search couldn't find the word intersects with the current selection.
Fix an issue where the metadata of a custom theme cannot be edited.
Fix an issue where the background of the line number view was drawn with wrong color when entered to the fullscreen mode.
Fix an issue on the regular expression Replace All with multiple selections where user cancellation didn't stop search immediately.

CotEditor 3.1.3

release: 2017-01-31

Improvements

Optimize script menu updating performance.
Change behavior to avoid showing incompatible char list on undoing encoding change.
Evaluate also the shebang to specify the syntax style on saving the document newly.
Scale up character view in character inspector.
Change drawing font for some invisible characters to draw them at a better position.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style.
Add more description about scripting in the help contents.
Deprecate hidden settings for UI update interval.
Update build environment to Xcode 8.2.1 (SDK macOS 10.12.2).
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.16.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash after lossy encoding change.
Fix an issue where the find string was not synchronized with other applications.
Fix an issue where the regular expression anchors ^ and $ could match wrongly on the normal “Find Next/Previous” under specific conditions.
Fix an issue on AppleScript where a single replacement with the regular expression didn't refer to the matches
Fix an issue where incompatible characters highlight could highlight wrong characters if line endings are CR/LF.
Fix an issue where some touch bar icons were drawn wrongly.
Fix an issue where the menu item “About Scripting” in Help > “CotEditor Scripting Manual” didn't work.
Fix an issue where the zoomed character in the character inspector was flipped when the popover is detached.
Fix an issue where lossy option in convert command by AppleScript scripting was ignored.
Fix an issue on the AppleScript scripting where range property of document contents could be wrong if document line endings are not LF. (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!).
Fix an issue where the editor opacity couldn't be set via AppleScript.
Fix minor typos.

CotEditor 3.1.2

release: 2016-12-10

New Features

Add Scripting hook feature for document opening/saving (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!):
- See Specifying the execution model of CotEditor scripts from the Help menu > CotEditor Scripting Manual > About Scripting for details.
Support AppleScript's script bundle (.scptd) for scripting (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!).
Add a new AppleScript property expands tab for document object (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!).

Improvements

Change the outline navigation arrows direction in the navigation bar if text orientation is vertical.
Add tooltips to the line endings menu in the toolbar.
Improve calculation of the vertical position of line numbers.
Tweak the behavior of the incompatible character table and the find result table to highlight the correspondent range in the editor every time when clicking a row in the table.
Update default settings about the visibility of invisible characters.
- From this change, the invisible character settings can be reset. If so, please reset from the “Appearance” pane in the preferences.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.15.0.

Fixes

Fix a possible crash on changing document's encoding lossy.
Fix an issue where application crashed if syntax editor panel becomes too small.
Fix an issue where the print icon in the toolbar didn't work.
Fix an issue where editor views didn't update after changing the body font or the visibility of the other invisible characters.
Fix an issue where no error message raised when a text encoding reinterpretation failed.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight also highlights the last line when the cursor is in the second last line.
Fix an issue where the title of the menu item toggling invisible character visibility didn't reflect the frontmost window state.
Fix an issue where the text size slider in the Touch Bar didn't update if text size was updated excepting via Touch Bar while the slider is shown.
Address an issue with drawing area of zoomed character view in character inspector popover.
Fix a typo in the English menu

Misc.

You can now find CotEditor scripts on GitHub Wiki.

CotEditor 3.1.1

release: 2016-11-18

Fixes

Fix a critical issue on CotEditor 3.1.0 where documents can't be opened under some specific environments.

CotEditor 3.1.0

release: 2016-11-17

New Features

Improve window tabbing on macOS Sierra:
- Add an option to set window tabbing behavior (in Window pane).
- Open multiple files in a single window with tabs when the window tabbing behavior is set as “Automatically” (or “In Full Screen Only” in system-wide).
Support Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.

Improvements

Display the number of replaced in the replacement string field after Replace All in the find panel.
Display the IANA charset name conflict alert as a document-modal sheet.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash on a large amount of text change.
Fix an issue where the application crashed when try to save a document with Non-lossy ASCII encoding.
Fix an issue where text fields in find panel cut off the end of long lines.
Fix an issue where the alert about the conflict with IANA charset name was not displayed.
Fix an issue where some kind of files could not be opened via Service.
Fix syntax highlight of quoted text of which quotation delimiter consists of multiple characters.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.5

release: 2016-11-15

Fixes

Fix an issue where scripts didn't put results on the document/console.
Fix an issue where the editor area was occasionally stacked under the window toolbar on macOS 10.12.
Fix an issue where MarsEdit via the App Store didn't update its contents after closing the document in CotEditor.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.4

release: 2016-10-31

Improvements

Update build environment to Xcode 8.1 (SDK macOS 10.12.1).

Fixes

Fix an issue where scripts didn't put results on the document/console.
Fix an issue where find all results didn't open anymore under the specific conditions.
Fix an issue where MarsEdit didn't update its contents after closing the document in CotEditor.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.3

release: 2016-10-25

New Features

Add the following encodings to the encoding list (To activate new encodings, restore default once in Preferences > Format > Edit List.):
- Arabic (Windows)
- Greek (Windows)
- Hebrew (Windows)

Improvements

Adjust glyph size calculation.
Improve performance of Find All and Replace All.
Disable customizing key bindings for window tabbing actions (Because it's impossible to handle them correctly.)
Update “Swift” syntax style to add some missing keywords.
Improve error message on script error.

Fixes

Fix an issue where default syntax style didn't highlight document until the first save.
Fix an issue where selection range after some text actions was wrong.
Fix an issue where document icons were blurry in non-Retina display.
Fix an issue where status bar layout collapsed if status line overflows.
Fix an issue where document theme reloaded unnecessarily on the first time Appearances pane display.
Fix an issue where the application could crash when script was failed.
Fix an issue where scrolling to the end of document with ⌘+↓ shortcut didn't scroll to the end.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.2

release: 2016-10-17

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could rarely freeze after replacing large document.
Fix an issue where new syntax style couldn't be created.
Fix an issue where new value of last edited text field in preferences was occasionally discarded.
Fix an issue where replacement string was not registered to the replacement history.
Fix an issue where horizontal scroll bars in the find panel fields were disappeared.
Fix a possible crash on application termination.
Fix a possible crash on opening document.
Fix error message of syntax style validation.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.1

release: 2016-10-11

Improvements

Add “Complete” action to “Edit” menu.
- On macOS Sierra, the default shortcut for completion action was changed to ⌥⎋.
Move action items in the menu “Edit” > “Transformations” to “Text” > “Transformations”.
Transform word contains the cursor if nothing is selected on transformation or Unicode normalization actions.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash while editing text on Yosemite.
Fix an issue where the application could crash on split editors under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the application could crash on running an AppleScript/JXA.
Fix an issue where sidebar couldn't be opened on Yosemite.
Fix an issue where text completion list didn't occasionally display.
Fix an issue where syntax highlighting progress indicator was always full.
Fix an issue where key bindings of recent documents were customizable.
Fix an issue where the application crashed when a folder is dropped to the application icon.
Fix an issue where find panel position was not saved.
Fix an issue where no beep sound was made when there was no match on find/replace.
Fix an issue where the application could freeze after replace large document.
Fix an issue where editable area didn't spread to the full width after changing text orientation when content is empty.
Fix an issue where matched brackets in unfocused split editors were highlighted without the need while editing one of split editors.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 3.0.0

release: 2016-10-04

New Features

Support window tabbing on macOS Sierra:
- Add “New Tab” action to File menu.
- Sync sidebar visibility among tabs in a window.
Display recent used syntax styles at the top of the toolbar syntax style popup list.
Add individual “Block Comment”, “Inline Comment” and “Uncomment” actions in Text menu unlike the “Comment Selection” action changes its behavior intelligently.
Add Italian localization (thanks to Agostino Maiello!).

Improvements

Support macOS 10.12 Sierra and drop support for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks.
Migrate all source code from Objective-C to Swift.
Update application icon.
Update find panel search algorithm:
- Change the regular expression engine from Onigmo to the ICU library.
  - From this, the reference symbol of matches is changed from \1 style to $1.
- Update line-up of the advanced search options.
Enable Autosave and Versions by default.
Inserting single surrogate character is no more valid.
Update toolbar.
Update preferences icons.
Exclude file extension from the initial selection in the document save panel.
Update key binding setting format.
- Not compatible with previous key bindings setting. Please customize again in the preferences window.
Auto-sync Script menu with script folder.
- Now, you don't need anymore to update script menu after script folder modification.
New acknowledgments window.
Update “Swift” syntax style to Swift 3.0.
Update “Coffee Script” syntax style for the block regular expression.
Improve syntax highlighting algorithm with symbols.
New “Go To Line” panel.
Display “Not Found” in the find string field in the find panel also when “Find All” failed.
Remove the following less important text actions:
- Insert Encoding Name with “charset=”
- Insert Encoding Name with “encoding=”
Remove the following less important toolbar items:
- Show / Hide Navigation Bar
- Show / Hide Line Numbers
- Show / Hide Status Bar
Remove the feature that changes the line height of current document from the “Format” menu.
- From this, line spacing property on AppleScript is also deprecated.
Remove “Not writable” alert which displayed on file opening.
Remove “Set as Default” button in the editor opacity panel.
Change specification not to treat full-width spaces as indent.
Add help buttons to syntax style editor.
Make text font, theme and tab width restorable from the last session.
Make indent deletion more naturally.
Remove byte count display in document inspector.
Display also an accurate file size in document inspector.
Display dialogs for changing file encoding as a document-modal sheet.
Move scripting manual into help contents.
Make window size setting window translucent.
Avoid expanding status bar into side inspector.
Improve line height calculation.
Keep visible area after toggling text-wrapping.
Improve scrolling with line number view drag.
Better syntax highlighting while editing.
Enable activate “Show Invisibles” action even if all of the invisible characters were set as not shown when the document was opened.
Update build environment to macOS Sierra + Xcode 8 (SDK macOS 10.12).

Fixes

Fix an issue find string is not shared with other applications after quitting CotEditor.
Fix an issue where some of script APIs returned always string with LF line endings.
Fix an issue where page guide remained after toggling page guide visibility.
Address an issue with drawing area of zoomed character view in character inspector popover.

CotEditor 2.5.7

release: 2016-08-22

Fixes

Fix German localization (Thanks to J-rg!).
Fix “Markdown” and “Verilog” syntax styles.
Fix update range of syntax highlight while editing.
Fix key binding setting error message.
Fix an issue where syntax validation result view was editable.
Address an issue where editor's drawing area could become wrong after scaling font size by vertical text.

CotEditor 2.5.6

release: 2016-06-16

New Features

Add newly rewritten syntax styles for “C” and “C++”.
- From this change, previous “C, C++, Objective-C” syntax style is deleted.
Add syntax styles for “MATLAB” and “Verilog”.

Improvements

Update “Markdown” syntax style:
- Support strikethrough with ~~ that is defined in the GitHub flavored Markdown.
- Support emphasis with triple * and _.
Focus back on the find panel after performing “Find All”, “Replace All” and “Highlight.”
Change to use the body text color for line numbers on printing that was previously always black.
Improve scroll behavior with arrow keys.
Improve compatibility with macOS Sierra beta.
And some other trivial improvements.

Fixes

Fix document counting as followings:
- “Char Count” counts composite characters as well as CR/LF as single characters and omits counting line endings if “Count each line ending as one character” option is off.
- “Length” counts bytes in UTF-16 literally and always counts line endings even if “Count each line ending as one character” option is off.
- “Location” and “Column” count characters just like “Char Count”.
Fix an issue where the selected marks of line height / tab width in the Format menu disappeared.
Fix an issue where unselected last line number could be highlighted if the text orientation is vertical.
Fix an issue where invisible characters were drawn off to the side if the text orientation is vertical.
Fix an issue where documents were marked as “Edited” just after document duplication if line ending is not the default one.
Fix an issue where detected indent style was applied not only on file opening but also every time when file reverted.
Fix an issue where “Find All” result view did not open on OS X Mountain Lion.
Fix an issue where incompatible character markup could break if undo/redo lossy encoding change continuously.
Fix an issue where keybindings of some submenu containers were customizable.
Fix an issue where tab width could be set as 0.
Fix an issue where tab width changing via AppleScript changes only the tab width in the focused editor rather than all split editors.
Fix an issue where byte length display did not update after changing file encoding.

CotEditor 2.5.5

release: 2016-05-23

New Features

Add syntax style for “Git”.

Improvements

Update “Julia” and “Swift” syntax styles.
Apply the change of line height/tab width to all split editors so that split editors not focused also can layout text correctly after the change.
Optimize text rendering performance a bit.

Fixes

Fix an issue where editor area was not focused when document opens.
Fix an issue where width of tab character could be wrong with specific fonts.
Fix an issue where selection highlight remained between lines under specific conditions.
Fix an issue where the current line highlight didn't update under the specific condition.
Fix an issue where unwanted dirt was drawn if use the Google Japanese Input.
Fix an issue where file path display in inspector was not updated when document file is moved.
Fix an issue where wrong data were displayed in document inspector when a window of an unsaved document is resumed.
Fix an issue where hanging indent was applied when document style is changed even it is turned off.
Fix an issue where custom syntax style/theme couldn't be removed from the style list if the definition file is already deleted.
Fix an issue where “Copy as Rich Text” was enabled even if no text is selected.
Fix an issue where URL links were removed when editor is split.
Fix an issue where line height broke if font whose editor is split is changed via font panel.
Fix an issue where the first insertion was registered to the undo history on opening document with the selection in another application via Services.
Fix an issue where the key binding for “Re-Color All” was forced to reset to the default ⌥⌘R if syntax style list is updated.

CotEditor 2.5.4

release: 2016-05-13

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application didn't work on Mavericks and earlier.
Fix an issue where syntax was occasionally parsed twice on window restoration.

CotEditor 2.5.3

release: 2016-05-12

New Features

Add new normalization form “Modified NFD” (unofficial normalization form adopted by HFS+) to the Unicode normalization action in Text menu (Thanks to DoraTeX!).

Improvements

Improve line-height handling with composite font:
- Remove “Fix line height with composite font” option, and now, the height of lines is always uniform.
- Update line-height calculation to fix that the line height by “Fix line height with composite font” option was a bit higher than actual line height of the used font.
  - From this change, the line height will get reduced than the previous versions. Please reset the line-height to your favorite number on the Appearance pane in the preferences.
- Improve line-height calculation.
Optimize performance to apply syntax highlight to document significantly.
Now, the setting changes of status bar, appearance, tab and invisible chars are applied to documents immediately.
Update “INI” syntax style.
Remove spelling auto correction option.
Remove “Delay coloring” option.
Enable move between input fields in syntax style editor with Tab key.
Apply font-face to font fields in preferences.
Apply document line height on “Copy with Style”.
Reflect the state of “Increase contrast” option in system Accessibility setting to custom UI.
Adjust preferences layout.

Fixes

Fix an issue where word-wrap broke mid-word when a line is indented.
Fix an issue where hanging indent reset if font is changed.
Fix an issue where some highlight definitions in Comments, Strings or Characters types were ignored.
Fix an issue where syntax was always highlighted even if syntax highlight is disabled.
Fix an issue where the application crashed if empty character is input from the Unicode hex panel.
Fix an issue where syntax highlight was rarely not updated when style definition is modified.
Fix line numbers position when text scaled.

CotEditor 2.5.2

release: 2016-05-04

Fixes

Fix an issue where invisible characters could not be hide.
Fix an issue where the application could crash if the “Replace All” button was clicked continuous.
Fix an issue where the application crashed on closing default window size setting window.
Fix line-wrapping behavior when the line contains a long unbreakable word.

CotEditor 2.5.1

release: 2016-04-25

Improvements

Change underline style of outline items.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
- Improve outline definitions to support the class syntax sugar introduced in ECMAScript 6.
- Better coloring for “get” and “set”.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash on opening empty file.
Fix an issue where cot command could fail creating new empty file.
Fix an issue where selected line numbers were not drawn in bold font.

CotEditor 2.5.0

release: 2016-04-23

New Features

Add independent “Unicode (UTF-8) with BOM” encoding to encoding list.
- Respect the existence of the UTF-8 BOM in opened files.
- Enable switching the document encoding between with and without BOM from the toolbar popup button and the “Format” menu.
  - The “Unicode (UTF-8) with BOM” item will be automatically added to just after the normal “Unicode (UTF-8)”.
Now, the execute permission can be given to the file to save from the save panel.
Add spelling auto correction option (in “Edit” pane).
Add a new theme “Lakritz”.

Improvements

Update cot command-line tool:
- Create a new file if a non-existent file path is passed in with --new option.
Revert “Highlight” and “Unhighlight” actions in “Find” menu.
Improve font-size changing behavior:
- Smoother pinch-zoom.
- Now font-size change applies only to the focused editor.
- Enable pinch-zoom to make font smaller than default font size.
- Font size changing doesn't affect the actual font anymore but just scale characters visibly.
- Fix an issue where font-size changing could remove hanging indent.
- Fix an issue where layout of split editors will be broken if the font of one of the other split editors is changed.
Separate the “Enable smart quotes and dashes” into “Enable smart quotes” and “Enable smart dashes” (in “Edit” pane).
Apply the following text actions to the whole document if no text is selected:
- Indentation > Convert Indentation to Tab / Spaces
- Lines > Sort
- Lines > Reverse
- Lines > Delete Duplicates
Optimize document opening performance with large file.
Add “Copy as Rich Text” action to the contextual menu.
Improve recovering status of unsaved documents on window resume.
Improve line number view drawing with selection on vertical text mode.
Improve invisibles drawing:
- Optimize drawing performance (ca. 2x).
- Better drawing if anti-aliasing is off.
Display the following dialogs as a document-modal sheet:
- The dialog asking encoding compatibility on saving.
- The print progress panel
Avoid registering indentation conversion action to the undo history if no text was changed.
Better error message on file opening.
Suppress trimming whitespace at the editing point on auto-saving when “Trim trailing whitespace on save” is on.
Tweak some label text in preferences.

Fixes

Fix an issue where printing area could be cropped.
Fix an issue where the background of navigation/status bars were not drawn under a specific condition.
Fix an issue where the numbers in the line number view could be drawn in a wrong place if the editor is vertical text mode and unwrapped.
Fix an issue where document could not be drawn until the end of the file on legacy OS if the file contains control characters.
Fix an issue on Mavericks and earlier where the application hung up if tried to print line numbers by vertical text layout on printing.
Fix an issue where line numbers could be drawn at a bit shifted position or even cropped on printing.
Fix XML document icon.
Fix some unlocalized text.

CotEditor 2.4.4

release: 2016-03-16

New Features

Add “Trim Trailing Whitespace” action to “Text” menu.
Add option to trim trailing whitespace automatically on save (in “General” pane).

Improvements

Reimplement highlighting found string groups with different colors.
Update BibTeX syntax style:
- Add “.bibtex” extension.
- Add some field names.
Update Python syntax style:
- Remove a duplicated term.
Now, the change of the page guide column option is applied to opened documents immediately.
Tweak text in preferences.
Update help contents.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.14.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue where “Delimit by whitespace” option on text find didn't work.
Fix an issue where some document file information displayed wrong after saving.
Fix an issue where line number view could count wrong if wrapped.
Fix an issue where printing color theme couldn't be changed to “Black and White” on print panel.
Fix an issue where print preview collapsed if paper size is changed on print panel.
Fix an issue where “ignore case” option in syntax style definition didn't actually ignore case.
Fix an issue where the current file extension was omitted from new suggested file name on “Save As…” operation.
Fix some typos in German localization. (Thanks to Chris Eidhof!)

CotEditor 2.4.3

release: 2016-03-02

Improvements

Turn regular expression option off automatically by using selected text for search.
Update cot command-line tool:
- Add --wait (-w) option to wait until a newly opened window closes.
- Optimize command performance.
- Fix an issue where command cannot open file whose path includes non-ascii character.
- Fix an issue where --line option didn't work under specific environments.
- Fix an issue where --line and --column options didn't move cursor to the desired location if file has blank lines at the end.
Now, the change of “link URL” option is applied to opened documents immediately.

Fixes

Fix an issue where documents were marked as “Edited” just after opening file if “link URL” option is enabled.
Fix an issue where URL link was not applied to pasted text.
Fix an issue where find-all highlight wasn't removed if find panel is closed before closing find result view.
Fix an issue where toggling invisible visibility didn't work correctly.
Fix an issue where the cursor located at the end of document after file opening.
Fix an issue where thousands separators weren't inserted to document information under specific environments.
Address an issue where paste was rarely failed under specific environments.

CotEditor 2.4.2

release: 2016-02-13

Fixes

Fix an issue on CotEditor 2.4.2 where document window couldn't be opened on Mountain Lion.

CotEditor 2.4.1

release: 2016-02-12

Improvements

Update JSON syntax style:
- Fix float number highlight.
Avoid displaying NULL on the status bar until the first calculation is finished.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the text finder's “ignore case” option was ignored on CotEditor 2.4.0.
Fix an issue where the current line number display was wrong if the cursor is in the last empty line.

CotEditor 2.4.0

release: 2016-02-09

New Features

New option balancing brackets and quotes (in “Edit” pane).
New option making URL in document clickable link (in “General” pane).
On El Capitan, hidden file visibility can be toggled via checkbox in the document open panel.
Add the following encodings to the encoding list:
- Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
- Hebrew (ISO 8859-8)
- Nordic (ISO Latin 6)
- Baltic (ISO Latin 7)
- Celtic (ISO Latin 8)
- Western (ISO Latin 9)
- Romanian (ISO Latin 10)

Improvements

Improve text finder:
- Now, “Find All” action also highlights all matched strings in the editor, and thereby “Highlight” action is removed.
- Change advanced find option setting from popup menu to popover.
- On Yosemite and later, a visual feedback is shown when the search wrapped.
- Keep selected range after “Replace All” with in-selection option.
- Display a total number of found in find panel on simple find actions.
- Now, “Find All” and “Replace All” actions are able to process multiple selections.
- Add Python syntax to the regular expression syntax options.
- Revert “Use selection for Replace” action to allow using an empty string.
- Update layout and style.
cot command now opens symbolic link target rather than the link itself.
On El Capitan, make option control of the document open panel visible.
Improve syntax highlighting for quoted strings and comment.
Display alert if file to open seems to be a kind of a media (binary) file.
Improve file encoding detection.
Update default priority order of encoding detection.
Improve character compatibility check.
Better error message on file opening.
Increase the number of significant digits in file size display.
Update Shell Script syntax style:
- Fix variable highlight with _.
Take a safety measure for in case the key binding setting file is corrupt.
Truncate outline label in the navigation bar by appending ellipsis if it overflows.
Move some options position within “General” pane and “Edit” pane in the preferences window.
Rename the main text input area in window from “View” to “Editor”.

Fixes

Fix cursor location after moving lines with empty selection.
Fix line-wrapping behavior when the line contains a long unbreakable word.
Fix an issue where the application crashed by an invalid find regular expression option combination.
Fix an issue where the application could crash just after starting dictation.
Fix an issue where keybinding setting could fail.
Fix an issue where the scroll bar style didn't change to light color on dark background theme.
Fix an issue where the character inspector didn't show up on Mavericks and earlier.
Fix an issue where split orientation setting wasn't applied.
Fix an issue where “Jump to Selection” action didn't jump to selection in editor if another text box is focused.
Fix an issue where some table cells didn't change their text color when selected.
Fix tiny memory leaks.

CotEditor 2.3.4

release: 2016-01-13

Improvements

Improve line numbers view for multiple selections.
Now, “Select Line” action works with multiple selections.
Close character inspector when text selection was changed.
Reproduce previous selection by undoing line actions.
Improve syntax highlighting performance.

Fixes

Fix an issue where comment-out action didn't work on CotEditor 2.3.3.
Fix an issue where window title bar was dyed in the editor's background color on El Capitan.
Fix an issue where text selection after move multiple lines was broken.
Fix an issue where ^ or $ anchors in the regular expression via AppleScript didn't work with document that has non-LF line endings.
Fix an issue where syntax highlighting indicator became occasionally unclosable under the specific condition on document opening.

CotEditor 2.3.3

release: 2016-01-09

New Features

Add “Share” menu to File menu.

Improvements

Now, you can force-disable window restoration from the last session if you hold Shift key while launch.
Improve “Input Character in Unicode Hex” panel:
- Display proposed character info.
- Allow also taking a 1 to 3 digits point code.
- Avoid auto-closing panel after entering character.
Improve character inspector:
- Display more comprehensible name for control characters (e.g. <control-0000> to NULL).
- Display an alternate visible symbol in the zoomed character area for C0 control characters.
Improve installed syntax style list in preferences:
- Add dot mark to style names in the list to represent the state if the style is customized.
- Enable restoring modified syntax style directly from the list without opening the style editor.
Now, the current line number is drawn in bold font, and always drawn in vertical text mode.
Select whole text wrapped with quotation marks by double-clicking one of the quotation marks if it is already syntax-highlighted.
Keep text selection after inserting color code from the color code panel.
Add “description” field also to outline setting in syntax style editor.
- From this, update most of bundled syntax styles.
Add jump to URL button to the style info in the syntax style editor.
Improve drawing of “Other” invisible characters.
Improve behavior on Replace/Replace All actions.
Improve text encoding detection to redress the tendency: a binary file was interpreted as ISO-2022-JP.
Revert style of popup menus in toolbar on Mavericks and earlier.
Update line number font.
Update default fonts.
Tweak preferences layout.
Tweak Chinese localization.
Improve general stability.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application tended to crash by trying opening binary file.
Fix an issue where line breaks between paths of dropped files were missing.
Fix an issue where the application crashed when a single character that is a part of surrogate pair is inspected.
Fix an issue where snippet key bindings could not be customized on Mavericks and earlier.
Fix an issue where syntax highlight was not updated after reinterpreting encoding.
Fix an issue where panels could lose target document.
Fix layout of character popup on Mavericks and earlier.
Fix an issue where “Recolor All” action was always enabled even if syntax style is “None.”

CotEditor 2.3.2

release: 2015-12-19

New Features

Add “Convert Indentation to Spaces/Tabs” actions to Text > Indentation menu.
Add syntax styles for “METAFONT” (Thanks to M.Daimon!), “AWK”, “Git Config” and “Git Ignore”.

Improvements

Improve character inspector:
- Display also Unicode block if selected letter consists of one character.
- Display Unicode names of each character if selected letter consist of multiple characters.
- Fix drawing area of zoomed character view.
- Fix some other trivial issues.
Add option to suppress “not writable document” alert.
Improve text selection by clicking line numbers view.
Tweak style of popup menus in toolbar.
Improve text encoding detection for UTF-32.
Add “description” field that doesn't affect to highlighting but for commenting for each term to the syntax style and syntax style editor.
Add Swipe to Delete action on El Capitan to tables in syntax style editor.
Update Python syntax style:
- Add several commands and variables that are in __foo__ form.
- Add pyi extension.
Update Perl syntax style:
- Add some terms.
Update PHP syntax style:
- Add terms added on PHP 5.6.
- Highlight uppercase TRUE, FALSE, AND and OR.
Update Haskell syntax style:
- Add some keywords.
Update DTD, Markdown, reStructuredText and Textile syntax styles to move comments to the description field.

Fixes

Fix an issue where text view drawing was distorted while resizing window.
Fix an issue where line endings of a document that has a line ending character at the beginning of the file cannot be interpreted its line ending type correctly.
Fix an issue where character inspector returned always U+000A (LF) for line ending even the actual line ending of the document is not LF.
Fix character count with a single regional indicator symbol.
Fix wrong undo action name on encoding conversion via script.

CotEditor 2.3.1

release: 2015-11-14

New Features

Add “Duplicate Line” action to Text > Lines menu.

Improvements

Update Python syntax style:
- Add terms added in Python 3.5.
Update R syntax style:
- Fix boolean values were not highlighted correctly.
Update Shell Script syntax style:
- Add “command” to extension list.

Fixes

Fix an issue where some type of script file cannot be opened because of “unidentified developer” alert even it was made on CotEditor.
Fix an issue where unwanted completion list was displayed by auto-completion when after typing a symbol character.
Fix an issue where the application could crash if the width of line number view will change.

CotEditor 2.3.0

release: 2015-11-07

New Features

Introduce Auto Save and Versions as an option (in General pane).
Add new actions handling selected lines to the new Text menu > Lines.
- They are also added to the AppleScript terms.
Add “Copy as Rich Text” action to the Edit menu.
Detect indent style on file opening and set tab expand automatically.
Add “Spell Check” button to toolbar icon choices.
- Customize toolbar to add it to your toolbar.
Add syntax styles for “D”, “iCalendar” and “Rich Text Format”.

Improvements

Reconstitute main menu.
Embed key bindings editor to Key Bindings pane.
Update “Shell Script” syntax style:
- Completely rewrite.
Update “INI” syntax style:
- Add “url” to extension list.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
- Add “z” to attributes.
Update “R” syntax style:
- Add “Rscript” to interpreters.
Temporarily hide the “Live Update” checkbox in the find panel since this feature by OgreKit framework has actually not worked correctly in the latest versions.
Bundle cot command to CotEditor.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/ again.
Update Onigmo regular expression engine to 5.15.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue where no file path was inserted if file type of the dropped file was not registered to the file drop setting.
Fix an issue where the application could be launched on unsupported system versions.
Fix an issue where the baseline of new line invisible characters was wrong if line is empty.
Fix syntax highlighting issue with multiple lines.
Fix an issue where text view drawing was distorted while resizing window.
Fix an issue where the application could crash on window restoration.
Fix some typos in syntax styles “Julia” and “SQL”.
Address an issue where syntax highlighted control character was sometimes not colored in the invisible color.

CotEditor 2.2.2

release: 2015-10-19

New Features

Add new normalization form “Modified NFD” (unofficial normalization form adopted by HFS+) to the Unicode normalization action in Utility menu (Thanks to doraTeX!)
- It is also added to the AppleScript terms.

Improvements

Update “JSON” syntax style:
- Add “geojson” to extension list.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the baseline of invisible characters was wrong by some fonts.
Fix an issue where the application could crash after modifying theme name on El Capitan.
Fix an issue where submenu disclosure arrows in the menu key binding editor did occasionally disappear.
Fix timing to update search string to system-wide shared find string.
Fix an issue under the specific conditions where the migration window showed up every time on launch.

CotEditor 2.2.1

release: 2015-10-04

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could crash on typing Japanese text if hanging indentation is enabled.

CotEditor 2.2.0

release: 2015-10-03

This version contains some specific changes that may require manual migration by users. See Important changes on CotEditor 2.2 for details.

New Features

CotEditor is now Sandboxed.
Hanging indentation that enables inserting extra indent to wrapped lines.
- You can change the behavior in Preferences > Edit.
New setting option for the behavior on document modification by external process (in General pane).
Share button in toolbar (Customize toolbar to use it).
Add new themes “Anura” and “Note”.
Line number view for vertical text orientation.
Print with vertical text orientation.
Save text orientation state to the file and restore it when the file is opened.
- for advanced users: In this feature, CotEditor saves an extended attribute which named com.coteditor.VerticalText to the file only when the editor's text orientation is vertical. You can even disable the feature running the command defaults write com.coteditor.CotEditor savesTextOrientation -bool NO in Terminal.
Add interpreter name list to the syntax style definition to determine syntax style from the shebang in the file content for in case when syntax style cannot be determined from the file name.

From this change, some of the bundled syntax styles are also updated.

Add new normalization form “NFKC Casefold” to the Unicode normalization action in the Utility menu. (Thanks to doraTeX!)
- It is also added to the AppleScript terms.
Add encoding: and coding: to the encoding declaration keywords which will be used on encoding auto-detection (interpreting priorities are: charset= > encoding= > @charset > encoding: > coding:).
Add German localization.

Improvements

Support OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
Deprecate the feature opening/saving files that user doesn't have the permission, due to Sandbox requirement.
Remove bundled cot command-line tool, due to the Mac App Store guidelines.
- To use cot command with CotEditor 2.2.0 and later, download the new command-line tool from http://coteditor.com/cot and install manually. You cannot use the previous one with CotEditor 2.2.0.
Improve side inspector UI.
Improve syntax highlighting:
- Optimize general syntax highlighting performance (ca. 1.8x).
- Optimize syntax highlighting on file opening.
- Better coloring parsing while editing.
- Update all split editors while editing.
Move scripts folder location from ~/Library/Application Support/CotEditor/ScriptMenu/ to ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.coteditor.CotEditor/ due of the Sandbox requirement.
- Users need to migrate their script to the new folder manually since CotEditor doesn't have the write permission to the new location.
Improve print document:
- Update header/footer layout to conform to the standard system header/footer design.
- Add page setup options to the print panel.
- Print settings preset can be stored in the print panel.
Improve Color Code Editor:
- Add stylesheet keyword to color code type.
- Add stylesheet keyword color list to editor panel.
- Make editor panel resizable.
Now syntax style is automatically set to “XML” on file opening if no appropriate style can be found but the file content starts with an XML declaration.
Update “Swift” syntax style:
- Add new terms available in Swift 2.0.
Better file encoding handling on revert action.
Update word completion list setting in Edit pane in Preferences (The previous setting has been reset).
Set access-group com.coteditor.CotEditor.edit to CotEditor's script definition.
Change behavior to save com.apple.TextEncoding xattr on saving if the file had no content.
Improve window restoration:
- To restore also the last scroll position and cursor position.
- To restore also the last syntax style mode of unsaved documents.
Support “swipe to delete” for some tables in Preferences on El Capitan.
Improve contextual menu for theme/syntax style list on preferences.
Avoid beeping on typing an unmatched > even if <> brace highlighting turned on.
Improve saving error dialog to display more detailed error reason.
Optimize saving process.
Adjust highlight color for find panel.
Tweak message terms.
Remove sample scripts.
- You can get them online on Archives page.
Update documents.
Update build environment to OS X El Capitan + Xcode 7 (SDK 10.11).
Change source code license from the GNU General Public License version 2 to the Apache License version 2.0.
non-AppStore ver.: Disable auto-update feature.
- Since the Sparkle framework which is a software update framework we use doesn't support Sandboxed apps yet, the auto-update feature within CotEditor should be once disabled. The new behavior is: a notification window will be shown when a new release is available (as before), then you need to update CotEditor manually getting the new version from our web-site. Or, just migrate to the Mac App Store version.
non-AppStore ver.: Add option to check pre-release versions.
- New pre-releases are always subject to the update check no matter the user setting if the current running CotEditor is a pre-release version.
non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.11.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue where theme color was occasionally not applied to the preview in the print panel.
Fix an issue where the application crashed when type a part of surrogate pair character.
Fix an issue where invisibles which are a surrogate pair occasionally did not display.
Fix an issue where the full path display in the document inspector did not update after the document file moved.
Fix an issue where the find panel could not find matched strings when the find string includes CR or CR/LF line endings.
Fix an issue where warning on Integration pane didn't disappear even after the problem resolved.
Fix an issue where the application crashed by clicking header of empty table in syntax editor sheet.
Fix an issue where line numbers were not drawn completely on OS X 10.8 when scroll bars are set as always shown.
Fix an issue where the command-line tool could rarely not be installed from Integration pane.
Fix an issue where the application could crash after when closing multiple split views.
Fix an issue where the toolbar button state of the text orientation was not updated on window restoration.
Fix an issue where some ligatured characters were drawn at a wrong position when the line height for composite font is fixed.
Fix an issue where unwanted invisible character marks were drawn when tab drawing is turned off and other invisibles drawing is turned on.
Add some missing localized strings in Japanese.
Improve general stability.

Misc.

First release in the Mac App Store.
A CotEditor plugin-script for Dash API documentation browser has been released at Dash CotEditor Plugin/GitHub.

CotEditor 2.1.6

release: 2015-07-17

Fixes

Improve stability on saving (Thanks to zom-san!).

CotEditor 2.1.5

release: 2015-07-14

Fixes

Fix an issue where auto-indent between curly brackets puts some spaces to a wrong place.

CotEditor 2.1.4

release: 2015-07-12

New Features

Importing theme files via drag-and-drop to theme list in preferences.

Improvements

Support displaying skin tone variations of Unicode 8.0 on the character inspector.
Support Automatic Termination (Now, CotEditor can be terminated automatically if it has no window).
Display invisible vertical tab (U+000B) with ␋ symbol if “Show other invisible characters” turns on.
Add fancy animations to encoding list edit sheet in preferences.
Add suppression button to the IANA charset name conflict alert.
Improve word completion with words that exist in the document.
Modify layout of “General” pane in Preferences.
Add tooltip hint to controls in the find panel.
Optimize image resources size.
Update Sparkle framework to version 1.10.0.

Fixes

Address an issue where the application could hang up on document saving.
Fix an issue where the autosaving could sometimes be disabled.
Fix an issue where the layout of the text fields in the find panel could rarely be broken.
Fix an issue where the auto-update notifier did not recognize a new stable version from specific beta version numbers.
Fix an issue where some 3rd-party text editors for OS X cannot interpret files which were created by CotEditor.
Fix an issue where an unwanted alert did show on the first save after reverting back.
Fix an issue where selection after modifying sort of extension priority in syntax style edit sheet was wrong.
Fix an issue where “Help” menu item duplicated in the menu bar on the second launch.
Add some missing Localized strings in simplified Chinese. (Thanks to Wei Wang!)

CotEditor 2.1.3

release: 2015-03-26

Improvements

Revert find panel behavior to select always whole text in find field when the panel is called.

Fixes

Fix line number drawing with large line numbers.
Fix an issue where the external modification notification did not work.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 2.1.2

release: 2015-03-10

Improvements

Change place to create backup files (Now, backup files are always created in ~/Library/Autosave Information/).
Improve find panel:
- Add scroll bars to the text fields.
- Show invisible characters in text fields.
- Now, “Swap ¥ and \ keys” option is also applied to the fields in the find panel.
- Remove “Escape Character” option for regular expression search.
Add “Cyrillic (Windows)” to the encoding list.
Optimize launching speed of cot command-line tool.

Fixes

Fix an issue where the application could hang up on saving backup file.
Fix an issue where unwanted find panel was shown when perform “Use Selection for Find” or “Use Selection for Replace” action.

CotEditor 2.1.1

release: 2015-03-01

Fixes

Fix an issue where octal file permission in the document inspector was wrong.
Fix an issue where the application could hang up on text editing.
Improve general stability.

CotEditor 2.1.0

release: 2015-02-19

New Features

cot command-line tool.
Now your documents are automatically backed-up while editing and will be resumed at the next session, even after force quitting.
- This feature doesn't modify your actual files. You still need to perform “Save” manually to apply changes to your files.
New AppleScript property tab width for document object.
Now, CotEditor script receives the absolute file path of the frontmost document as an argument if available.
Add “New CotEditor Document with Selection” and “Open File in CotEditor” Services.
Add syntax styles for “Erlang” and “Julia”.

Improvements

Drop support for OS X Lion.
Migrate document drawer to sidebar style.
- Add “show document inspector” option to preferences.
- Improve document information display.
Introduce brand-new find panel with more organized UI.
- OniGmo is still be using for the regular expression engine as before.
- Settings for find panel has been once reset. You can set them again from the gear button in the find panel.
Enable to change multiple checkboxes in syntax style editor at once.
Improve to display gear icon in menu bar while executing a script.
Improve auto-outdent behavior with } input.
Improve auto-tab-expand behavior with intent that tab characters and spaces are mixed.
Add hidden “Reveal in Finder” menu item to syntax style action menu in Preferences (visible with Option key).
Improve CotEditor Script to apply the result to the document that was frontmost when the script was launched.
Close Preferences window with ESC key.
Character inspector popover becomes detachable (on Yosemite and later).
Update about Console Panel:
- Rename “Script Error Panel” to “Console Panel.”
- Change toolbar style.
- Beautify output message style.
Prefer using user custom syntax style if the file mapping conflicts with other bundled style.
Make key bindings for panel windows customizable.
Change to save com.apple.TextEncoding xattr only if the file already has the encoding xattr or it's a new document.
Move removed themes/styles to Trash instead delete them immediately.
Now, Utility actions perform with multiple selections.
Avoid showing not-writable alert on Resume again.
Delay timing to save text key bindings setting.
Localize document types.
Improve text rendering with non-opaque view.
Update “Markdown” syntax style:
- Add horizontal rules to outline menu.
Tweak text view drawing performance.
Update Sparkle framework to version 1.9.0.

Fixes

Fix an issue that the preferred file encoding for encoding detection could be set wrong after running file open panel.
Fix an issue that incompatible character markup positions were wrong by CR/LF line endings.
Fix duplication check in key bindings editor.
Fix “Restore Defaults” button ability on text key bindings edit sheet.
Fix possible crashes on input.
Fix an issue that application could crash after closing split view.
Fix an issue that application could crash after switching theme in preferences.
Fix an issue where tab width on printing didn't reflect user indent setting.
Fix an issue where tab width didn't update on font size change.
Fix an issue where the help button on Edit pane and Format pane didn't show correct help page.
Fix an issue that application couldn't open file that is not Unicode, has more than 4,096 characters and consists only of 2 byte characters.
Fix an issue that text font could occasionally change after pasting or inputting text from other application.
Fix an issue that number of selected lines displayed less than actual count if last selected lines are blank.
Fix an issue that Unicode character insertion was occasionally failed.
Fix an issue that syntax highlights were removed after performing Unhighlight.
Fix timing to display sheets on file open.
Fix an issue that selection of line endings menu and encoding menu in toolbar did not update on undo/redo
Fix an issue where “Go To” dialog could duplicate and then most of the controls were disabled.
Fix an issue that checkmark in line height menu was not displayed.
Fix an issue where some document icons were not applied under the specific environments.
Fix some missing localizations in simplified Chinese. (Thanks to Wei Wang!)
Fix an issue that an alert message was not localized.
And other trivial UI fixes and enhancements.

CotEditor 2.0.3

release: 2014-12-14

New Features

Add Chinese (Simplified) localization. (Thanks to Wei Wang!)
Add feature to scale font size up by pinch gesture.

Improvements

Add “Traditional Chinese (Big 5 HKSCS)”, “Traditional Chinese (Big 5-E)” and “Traditional Chinese (Big 5)” to encoding list.
Add “show invisible characters” option to set the visibility of all invisible characters at once.
- From this, invisibles visibility of displayed windows can be toggled even all invisibles are hidden as default.
Now, the popup menus in toolbar can be called directly even on “Text Only” mode without mode change.
Now, window states will resume from the last session.
Change default syntax style from “None” to “Plain Text”.
Improve syntax highlighting performance.
Remove delay when an AppleScript/JavaScript is run for the first time after application launch.
Update “CSS” syntax style:
- Add several keywords. (Thanks to Nathan Rutzky!)
Update “JSON” syntax style:
- Improve highlighting performance.
Improve find panel behavior with Spaces.
Disable rich text in find panel.

Fixes

Fix page guide position and tab width.
Fix an issue that “Go” button in “Go To” sheet didn't work by clicking.
Fix an issue that line endings menu in toolbar whose document had been newly created was always set to “LF”.
Fix an issue that cancellation of syntax extracting didn't work immediately under the specific conditions.
Fix an issue that selecting inside of brackets by double-clicking didn't work.
Fix an issue that script execution with large size output could cause application hang up.
Fix a possible issue that syntax highlighting while text editing could cause application crash.
Fix an issue that application could hang up when no text font is found.
Fix an issue that highlights weren't updated after “Replace All” under Japanese localization.
Fix an issue that the Auto-Completion feature couldn't enable from the preferences under Japanese localization.

CotEditor 2.0.2

release: 2014-11-26

Fixes

Fix a critical issue that the application hang up if either file encoding or line endings is shown in status bar.

CotEditor 2.0.1

release: 2014-11-25

New Features

Introduce new AppleScript commands comment out and uncomment for selection object.
Add “js“ extension to CotEditor script type.
- Hint: Use #!/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript for shebang to run script as Yosemite's JavaScript for Automation.
Add “Create Bug Report…” action to the Help menu.
Add syntax style for “BibTeX”.

Improvements

Display an alert if the opening file is larger than 100 MB.
Change the default value for “Comment always from line head” option to enable.
Rename labels for line endings.
Update “Python” syntax style:
- Fix highlighting print command.
Update “Ruby” syntax style:
- Improve highlighting % literals.
Update “R” syntax style:
- Add file name .Rprofile to file mapping.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
- Highlight shebang as a comment.
Update documents for scripting with AppleScript.
Update sample scripts.
Remove syntax style for “eRuby”.

Fixes

Fix an issue that new documents couldn't occasionally be saved with an extension that is automatically added from syntax definition.
Fix an issue that the application could crash after closing split view.
Fix an issue that some objects couldn't be handled via JavaScript for Automation on Yosemite.
Fix an issue that syntax style validator didn't warn about keywords duplication that were newly added.
Fix an issue that syntax style mapping conflict tables were always blank.
Fix an issue that quoted texts and block comments at the end of document weren't highlighted.
Fix an issue that text kerning was too narrow with non-antialiasing text (thanks to tsawada2-san).
Fix an issue that text view scrolls to the opposite side when line number view is dragged.
Fix an issue that contents property of document property couldn't be set via AppleScript.
Fix an issue that word selection didn't expand correctly under the specific conditions.
Fix an issue that current line highlight didn't update after font size change.
Fix an issue that navigation/status bars are shown for a moment on window creation even they are set as hidden.
Fix an issue that newly added row in file drop setting occasionally disappear immediately.
Fix some Japanese localizations.

CotEditor 2.0.0

release: 2014-11-13

This version contains some specific changes that may require manual migration by users. See Important changes on CotEditor 2.0 for details.

New Features

Coloring theme feature.
Comment toggling feature.
Add “types”, “attributes” and “variables” to syntax highlighting colors.
Now, syntax style can be determined not only from file extension but also from file name.
- From this, rename “Extensions” in syntax edit sheet to “File Mapping”.
Add metadata fields for syntax styles.
Append a correspondent extension to the file name on saving.
- The top extension in the extension list in the syntax style definition will be used.
- From this, setting for “Append “txt” on saving” was deprecated.
  - If you want to keep using “txt” as default extension, set “Plain Text” syntax style as default style in Preferences > Format.
Add “Toggle Text Orientation” icon to toolbar.
Add option to split views vertically.
Select lines via clicking/dragging line numbers.
Add “Select Line” command to “Edit” menu.
Add syntax styles for “AppleScript”, “C#”, “Go”, “Lisp”, “Lua”, “R”, “Rust”, “Scheme”, “SQL”, “SVG”, “Swift” and “Tcl”,.
Auto-complete feature (experimental implementation, turned off by default).

Improvements

Support OS X Yosemite.
Update application icon with Yosemite style.
Change the bundle identifier from com.aynimac.CotEditor to com.coteditor.CotEditor.
New default coloring scheme.
Improve performance drastically:
- Extracting outline list on a background thread.
  - From this, non-response time till coloring indicator sheet has been shown reduced drastically.
  - Display message for outline extracting in the navigation bar until the first extracting ends.
- Perform extracting syntax highlights on a background thread.
- Cache results of syntax highlighting, and use them as long as document is not modified.
- Improve cursor moving and file opening performance when the current line is highlighted.
- Improve invisible chars drawing performance (4x faster).
- Improve line number drawing performance (6x faster).
- Improve text view scrolling on Mountain Lion and later.
- For performance, change range to scan encoding declaration up to 2,000 characters from the head of the document.
Change syntax style file format from plist (XML) to YAML.
- Legacy user styles will be migrated automatically on the first launch of CotEditor 2.0.
- New user syntax style files are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/CotEditor/Syntaxes/. The old styles are kept in SyntaxColorings/. Since CotEditor 2.0 doesn’t use them any more, you can delete the directory if you want.
Now, IC (ignore case) can be set even RE (regular expression) is set in syntax style editing.
Change regular expression engine to extract outline from OniGmo (OgreKit) to ICU (NSRegularExpression).
- Attention!: You may need to update the outline extracting definitions in your custom syntax styles. See Important changes on CotEditor 2.0 for details.
- Remove $& definition that represents whole matched string (Use $0 instead).
Change tab width to 4 characters in outline menu.
Improve coloring indicator:
- Improve to perform cancel button correctly.
- On Mavericks and later, you can work with other documents while coloring dialog is shown.
- Display current task as message in sheet.
- Change not to reset syntax style to “None” when user cancels coloring.
- Change not to remove current coloring when user cancels coloring.
- Cancel with ESC key.
Apply theme color to the line number view.
On Mountain Lion and later, text view gets no drop-shadow by texts on semi-transparent.
Define document types for CotEditor in more details and also add document icons for each.
Scroll line by line with an arrow key.
Adjust indent automatically on return just after { and } if Auto-Indent is on. (thanks to Naotaka-san).
Rename “Spelling” menu item to “Spelling and Grammar” in Edit menu, and also add “Substitutions” and “Transformations” items
- From this, remove “Uppercase”, “Lowercase” and “Capitalize” in “Utility” menu.
Update all of bundled syntax styles.
Update “CSS” syntax style:
- Support CSS level 3.
Update “Perl” syntax style:
- Add some keywords.
- Add =pod and =cut to comment coloring.
- Add “pm” to extensions.
Update “JSON” syntax style:
- Add “cottheme” to extensions.
Update “LaTeX” syntax style:
- Add “cls” and “sty” to extensions.
- Update outline menu style.
Update “YAML” syntax style:
- Support YAML 1.2.
- Improve outline extracting rules.
- Some fixes.
Update “Ruby” syntax style:
- Support % notation.
- Add special variables.
- Improve number literals.
- Support here document.
- and some more fixes.
Update “Java” syntax style:
- Improve number literals.
- Support annotation.
- and some more fixes.
Update “JavaScript” syntax style:
- Completely rewrite.
Update “Haskell” syntax style:
- Improve number literals.
- Add escape chars.
Update “Apache” syntax style:
- Indent outline items.
Separate “DTD” (Document Type Declaration) syntax style from “XML”.
- From this, coloring performance with “XML” syntax style was improved.
Updates about scripting support:
- Migrate AppleScript API definition file to sdef format.
- Rename unicode normalization command to normalize unicode.
- Update internal code for range property of text selection objects.
  - From this, your compiled AppleScripts (.scpt) that contain selection handling need to be updated manually. See “Scripting with AppleScript” document in Help menu for details.
- Update documents about scripting with AppleScript.
Change not to include menu items that manage script menu in context menu.
Count characters by composed character sequence in the status bar and the info drawer.
- The previous count was actually the length of string in UTF-16 that is internal string expression on OS X (for example, a surrogate pair is counted previously as 2 and now as 1).
- Rename previous “Char Count” to “Char Length” and add another “Char Count” with the new count method for status bar items.
Avoid the move to previous outline item button to select the first “<Outline Menu>” item.
Change key to display hidden menu items in “File” menu to “Option”.
Add . and : to word separators that are used for selecting a word with a double click.
Improve messages on character info inspector with surrogate pairs and variation selectors. (thanks to doraTeX-san)
Disable alert asking for save when blank & unsaved document will be closed. (thanks to Naotaka-san)
Brush up toolbar icons.
Now, font size of line numbers follows editor font size.
Draw page guide in text color.
Improve syntax editor sheet so as to edit documents even the sheet is shown. (on Mavericks and later)
Tweak result messages by syntax style validator and partially localized.
Improve application icon so as not to react with dropped folders.
Improve cancellation behavior of word completion.
Rename “Inspect Glyph” to “Inspect Character”.
Delay timing to store user’s menu key bindings.
- The user setting for menu key bindings on CotEditor 1.x will be reset on the first launch of v2.0.
Improve key bindings edit sheets.
Change line hight value to line height based, that includes the hight of the line itself.
Change default line hight value to 1.3.
Add thousands separators to values in document info.
Change date format in document info drawer.
Tweak status bar design.
Add back quotes to quotation marks which are accommodated when color comments.
Change Go To panel to sheet.
Add animation when toggling visibility of the navigation bar and the status bar.
Fix used font for invisible characters.
Update some of alternative characters for full-width space char.
Improve appearance of the encoding list edit sheet.
Improve window size setting fields in preferences to move fields with tab key.
Tweak some texts in UI.
Deprecate “Drag selected text immediately” setting.
Remove the output type keyword Pasteboard puts for CotEditor script, that was deprecated on CotEditor 0.7.2 and had remained for backwards compatibility.
Add hidden setting key layoutTextVertical (boolean) to set text orientation vertical as default.
Deprecate font settings for navigation bar and line number view which are hidden settings.
Move version history from rich text format to one of the Help contents.
Update documents.
Update Sparkle framework to 1.8.0.
Update build environment to OS X Yosemite + Xcode 6.1 (SDK 10.10).
And more internal changes.

Fixes

Fix an issue that “Share find strings with other applications” option didn’t work.
Fix an issue that “Open a new document when CotEditor becomes active” option didn’t work correctly.
Fix an issue that the encoding select in file open panel was ignored.
Fix an issue that comments weren’t highlighted correctly if another comment delimiter is contained in string that is enclosed in quotes before the comment delimiter.
Fix an issue that variation selectors, kind of invisible characters, disappeared occasionally.
Fix help buttons on preferences panes.
Fix an issue that encoding selection in toolbar was reset after changing of encoding list order.
Fix over-wrapped text in the status bar to truncate with “…”.
Fix an issue that unfocused windows performed also re-coloring after “Replace All”.
Fix an issue that page guide was occasionally drawn at wrong place if fallback font is used.
Fix to highlight current line only in focused view of split views.
Fix an issue that text lines vibrated during moving caret if text orientation is vertical and line hight is fixed.
Fix an issue that line numbers in unfocused views were not updated.
Fix an issue that lately added toolbar icons didn’t represent the state at the moment.
Fix an issue that an error was output in console if blank area of incompatible chars table was clicked.
Fix an issue that editors didn’t change to transparent if the opacity setting in preferences window was changed from 100%.
Fix an issue that changes in custom line height panel wasn’t applied immediately.
Fix an issue that “Same as Document” selection for invisible chars in print panel didn’t work correctly.
Fix an issue that line count got one more extra if selection contains return at the end.
Fix an issue that range property of text selection objects was displayed as wrong character range on AppleScript Editor.
Fix some sample scripts which didn’t run correctly.
Fix an issue that some settings did not display in Preferences on OS X Lion.
Fix an issue that CotEditor could crash after replacement on specific conditions.
Avoid horizontal scrollers on key bindings edit sheets.

Misc.

Twitter account for CotEditor was created. Follow @CotEditor to get our latest news.
Web page address was changed to coteditor.com.
You can find additional syntax styles to install on GitHub Wiki.

CotEditor 1.5.4

release: 2014-06-29

Fixes

Fix an issue that second page was also printed even the document was actually one page.
Fix an issue that print large size file with syntax coloring would be failed due to the indicator panel.
Fix an issue that file size info didn’t update after the file update. (thanks to aki-san)
Fix an issue that auto-indent was not invoked with Japanese fill-width space.
Fix an issue that change of view opacity would not be applied to the line number views of the opened windows.
Fix an issue that some temporary settings for the opened editors could be canceled occasionally.

CotEditor 1.5.3

release: 2014-05-21

Improvements

Adjust preferences window layout.
Reduce scope of syntax coloring on typing.
Update OgreKit framework to 2.1.7:
- Refine some labels in Find menu and Find panel.

Fixes

Fix an issue that preview didn’t update after changing of footer/header alignment.
Fix a rare issue that print cannot be performed under the specific environments.
Fix an issue that set file drop cannot be changed.
Fix file drop behavior when files with multiple extensions are dropped.
Fix an issue that text view layout doesn’t follow text wrapping change when layout orientation is vertical.
Fix some error messages in English.

CotEditor 1.5.2

release: 2014-05-10

Improvements

Modify some menu and setting labels. (thanks to zom-san)
Now more setting changes are applied also to current document windows.
Optimize process when status bar is shown.
Update documents

Fixes

Fix a critical issue that CotEditor crashes on the first launch.
Fix an issue that window position doesn’t restore on Japanese locale.
Fix an issue that text insertion on file drop failed.
Fix missing short cut key of “Enter Full Screen” action.
- To apply this change, perform the “Set to Factory Defaults” on Preferences > Key Bindings > Menu Key Bindings > Edit.

CotEditor 1.5.1

release: 2014-05-09

Fixes

Fix a critical issue that CotEditor 1.5 cannot be launched on OS X 10.7.

CotEditor 1.5.0

release: 2014-05-08

New Features

“Inspect Glyph” feature:
- Popover information of the selected character, if Cmd + Option + I is pressed or “Inspect Glyph” menu item in “Edit” menu is selected when exactly a single character is selected.
New color code panel:
- Support 3-digit Hex, CSS’s rgb(), rgba(), hsl() and hsla().
- Fix an issue that the color selected in the color panel was applied also to texts in text view.
Add “Input Char in Unicode Hex” feature to “Edit” menu.
Informations to display in status bar become selectable.
Add word count and file size to status bar info choices.
Add word count, file size and byte size to info drawer.
Tab format becomes settable via “Format” menu and toolbar to apply only to the current document.
On Auto-Indent mode, indent become automatically deeper when return key is pressed exactly between { and } or just after : character.
Add new “CoffeeScript” ¹, “Dart”, “Diff”, “INI” ¹, “JSON”, “Makefile”, “reStructuredText” ¹, “Textile” ¹ and “YAML” syntax style definitions.
Now, script folder whose name begins with underscore (_) are not displayed in script menu.
[experimental] Add “Use Vertical Orientation” action to “Format” menu (Line numbers are always disabled while vertical orientation mode).

Improvements

Add “Western (ASCII)” and “Chinese (GB 18030)” to encoding list.
Brush-up terms on UI.
Update “HTML” syntax coloring definition.
- Support HTML5 and HTML5.1
- Better coloring.
Update “Perl” syntax coloring definition.
- Color numbers and variables.
- Add some keywords.
- Improve comments coloring.
Add “Speech” to “Edit” menu.
Add “Syntax Style only” choice to completion list setting.
Add setting for smart quotes/dashes to preferences.
Regard numbers and underscore _ as string is continuing in non-regex keywords on syntax coloring.
Force disable smart quotes/dashes expect the document view.
Change the default order of the encodings detection priority, and now “UTF-8” comes to the first position.
- You should perform “Set to Factory Default” to apply it. if you update CotEditor from previous version.
Updates about window opaque:
- Remove the feature to make whole the window semi-transparent, and now opacity setting is applied always only to the view.
- Now, line number view follows the text view’s opacity.
- Now, opacity value need not be multiple of 5%
- Fix term “transparency” to “opacity”.
- Change “Apply to all Windows” button to “Set as Default”.
- Update guide image for view opacity slider in preferences.
- Fix window’s drop-shadow whose text view is full-opaque.
Updates about window open behavior:
- Store last window’s position and locate new window to the place.
- Remove the feature that unedited blank window closes automatically when another document is going to open.
Updates about print:
- Implement print preview on print panel.
- Apply the document name to the print job.
- Add “Syntax Name” to the header/footer information choices.
- Remove hyphens next to page number.
- Adjust print panel layout.
Toggle menu item names occasionally like “Show” / “Hide”, instead displaying checkmark.
Change syntax styles management method.
- Don’t to copy bundled styles to user’s “Application Support” area on launch.
  - From this, bundled syntax styles follow updates after CotEditor 1.5 as long as the styles are not customized.
    - This is not applied to the syntax styles that were copied previous. To apply it to them, perform “Set to Factory Defaults” on style editing sheet of each bundled syntax style in Preferences > Format pane > Installed styles.
  - for advanced users: “~/Application Support/CotEditor/SyntaxColorings (old)” will be created on the first launch of CotEditor 1.5, if you updated it from the previous version. This folder is just a backup data for this switching. you can generally remove it if you want.
- Handle files Sandbox level safety on style import/export.
Updates about Preferences window:
- More compact window.
- New grouping.
  - Remove “Syntax” pane and move its settings to “Format” pane and “Appearance” pane.
  - Create a new “Edit” pane extracting settings about editing from “General” pane and “Format” pane.
  - Other several setting moves.
- Use More OS X-friendly terms for labels.
- Apply selected font style to the font fields.
- Use selected pane name for the preferences window title.
- New syntax style management UI.
- Update syntax style editing sheet.
  - Change mode switching from popup button to list.
  - Now, multiple lines can be selected and removed at once.
  - Validate new syntax name immediately on editing and show an error message if it isn’t valid.
- Improve UI of the extension conflicts sheet.
- Add stepper next to number field.
Updates about AppleScript:
- Remove transparency and alpha only textView properties.
- Add view opacity property to window object.
- Remove selection object direct under the Application object.
Updates about saving position of the script samples and documents:
- Now, documents for CotEditor scripting can be found in “Help” menu.
- Now, sample scripts will be copied only on the first CotEditor launch.
- Add hidden “Copy Sample to Scripts Folder” menu item that will be appeared only when option key is pressed.
Remove unimportant settings.
- Remove setting about file Type/Creator that are used until OS X 10.5 to determine document type on system.
- Remove setting about wrapped mark in the line number view and now wrapped marks are always shown.
- Remove the coloring option setting “Include Input Method chars” and now they are always included.
Updates about script error panel:
- Implement text search in error messages.
- Increase text size and insert a blank line between error messages.
Add information about number of selected lines to status bar and information drawer.
Support surrogate pair on Unicode display in information drawer.
Make matching brace highlight more noticeable.
Add “Report Bug…” menu item to “Help” menu.
Use light scroller style when background color is dark.
Change line/character selection on Go To panel from radio buttons to popup menu.
Improve inspector drawer layout.
Now line number view updates while window resizing.
Improve syntax coloring on text inputing.
Migrate memory management to ARC (Automatic Reference Counting).
Optimize processes on application launch.
Update Sparkle framework to version 1.6.0:
- Add Japanese localization.
- Fix “Automatically download and install updates in the future.” checkbox.
Update OgreKit framework to version 2.1.6.
- Now find panel is displayed always on current desktop space.
- Disable automatic substitutions in find panel.
A huge bunch of code and document changes.
Many code and document changing.

Fixes

Fix an issue that all print page number becomes “-1-”.
Fix an issue that check mark on line endings popup menu in toolbar was disappear.
Fix an issue that re-coloring didn’t proceed after the text replacement.
Fix an issue that the close command via AppleScript was ignored.
Fix an issue that unwanted window objects were visible and could be handled via AppleScript.
Fix an issue that ^ (beginning of a line) on AppleScript’s search/replacement was not recognized when the document’s line endings are set to CR.
Fix an issue that visual tab width didn’t follow new font when font is temporary changed via font panel.
Fix an issue that strings between quotes/dashes were not colored when comment coloring definition is not contained in the syntax coloring definition.
Fix an issue that invalid style name was accepted and the saving was failed on syntax style editing under the specific conditions.
Fix an issue that syntax style file override another existing one without alert on syntax style editing under the specific conditions.
Fix an issue that application freeze when one of the installed syntax styles contains an extension definition with the empty string.
Fix an issue that key-bindings contain back-slash didn’t work under the Japanese locale.
Fix an issue that encoding names in the encoding list on the preferences was editable.
Fix an issue that document saving is failed when the document that is set to “Non-lossy ASCII” contains non-ASCII characters.
Fix an issue that application didn’t terminate on quite even “Don’t Save and Close” button was selected when a document whose Finder lock couldn’t be unlocked exists.
Fix an issue that error message is output to console when completion list is called while the document is empty.
Fix PHP code on the application icon.

CotEditor 1.4.1

release: 2014-03-22

Improvements

Disable smart dash/quotes feature of Mavericks as default.
- for advanced users: Run defaults write com.aynimac.CotEditor enableSmartQuotes YES in Terminal to enable this feature again.
- On the next CotEditor 1.5, this feature will be able to be changed on Preferences.

Fixes

Fix an issue on ver. 1.4 that line count was always zero.

CotEditor 1.4.0

release: 2014-03-19

Improvements

Change support OS: OS X 10.7 and later.
Support 64-bit.
Support Retina display.
Update regular expression library used on search & replace feature from Oniguruma to Onigmo.¹
- Now the most regular expression syntax defined on Perl 5.10+ like look-behind/look-ahead are available.
Update application, document and toolbar icons.
Add small size toolbar icons.
Add new “Apache”, “Markdown”, “Scala” and “XML” syntax coloring definitions.²
Update “PHP” syntax coloring definition.²
- Support until PHP5.5.
- Color properties and numbers.
- Improve outline menu.
Update “Python” syntax coloring definition.²
- Support Python3. (>=3.3)
- Color decorators.
- Improve and fix number coloring.
- distinguish between “print” statement and “print” command.
Update “LaTeX” syntax coloring definition.
- Fixed {} symbol escaping
Add py, markdown, md, xml, scala and conf extensions to document type.
Add “Enter Full Screen” command to menu > View.
Remove “Preferences”, “Save”, “Save As”, “Page Setup” and “Transparency Panel” icons from toolbar.
Hide dot files and folders in script menu.
Improve alert descriptions.
Adjust styles of windows and panels.
Rename HexColorCode Editor to Color Code Editor
Update documents.

Fixes

Fixed an issue that unexpected “Update by external process” alert comes up even file is actually not updated.
Fixed “from an unidentified developer” alert on the first launch.
Fixed an issue that toolbar background becomes transparent on fullscreen mode (Lion binary).
Fixed an issue that text view doesn't become transparent (Lion binary).
Fixed an issue that top and bottom margin are flipped on printing since OS X Lion.
Fixed an issue that readonly icon in status bar doesn't represent the state correctly, if status bar was hidden when window opened.
Fixed a miss placed label on Preferences (Japanese localization).
Add blank between words on toolbar labels.
Fixed an issue that RegexKitLite was actually not updated to 4.0 on CotEditor 1.1.
Fixed an issue that after the specific operation, closed find panel appears again and become not closable.

CotEditor 1.3.1

release: 2012-02-12

Fixes

Fix a bug that cannot install via automatic update.

CotEditor 1.3.0

release: 2012-02-10

New Features

Full screen feature. (For 10.7 only)
Add option to append extension “txt” when saving a file.

Improvements

On Find Panel, don't close panel when you press return key. (If you'd like to close panel, press shift+return key.) (thanks to akinull-san)
Add binary for 10.7. (build separately for 10.4–10.6 and for 10.7)

CotEditor 1.2.0

release: 2011-05-23

New Features

Add automatic update feature.

Improvements

Change the application icon. (thanks to 1024jp-san)
Update 'About The ScriptMenu Folder' document.

Fixes

Fix a bug that ignores tab in auto indent.
Fix a bug that cannot open AppleScript Editor for 10.6 by Option+Click on script menu.

CotEditor 1.1.1

release: 2011-04-06

Fixes

Fix a bug that cannot start in some environment.

CotEditor 1.1.0

release: 2011-04-03

Improvements

Include documents to the application, and open them from the Help menu.
Include sample scripts to application, and copy them to script folder on the first launch.
Change SDK version and the deployment target to 10.4.
Update OgreKit to 2.1.4.
Update RegexKitLite to 4.0.
Add usami-k to copyright.

Fixes

Fix a crash bug on MacBook Air.
Fix the default style file for CSS.

CotEditor 1.0.1

release: 2009-05-01

Improvements

Adjusted vertical character display position in a line.
Modified some Utility menu items' names (English).

Fixes

The default style file for PHP was missing. This problem has been fixed.
Updated the default style file for “C, C++, Objective-C”, Java, Haskell.
A newly added user couldn't launch CotEditor due to the permission issue of the default style file for eRuby. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where scripts failed to handle selected strings of a document with CR/LF line endings.

CotEditor 1.0.0

release: 2009-02-28

Improvements

Updated development environment to 10.5.6 + Xcode 3.1.2.

Fixes

When the option “Fix line height with composite font” is enabled, the text display with particular fonts was not updated as it should be. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where changing font cluttered the Page Guide display.

CotEditor 0.9.6

release: 2008-12-27

New Features

Added an option allows you to save UTF-8 files with a BOM. (UTF-8 with BOM may cause various problems, use this option with care. OFF by default.)

Improvements

Removed the “A colon (:) is considered as a delimiter when you select a word by double-clicking” feature added on version 0.9.5 (this made expanding the selection with SHIFT-click impossible).
Improved syntax coloring accuracy on 10.5.x.
Upgraded RegexKitLite to version 2.2.
Updated development environment.

Fixes

Fixed a problem where you could drop a folder on the CotEditor icon.
Fixed a bug where a newly created Syntax Style couldn't be saved.
Fixed a bug where the name of a copied Syntax Style couldn't be changed.
Cleared unused variables, uninitialized variables and memory leaks from my own code using clang's scan-build.
Fixed a bug where pasting text containing line endings would break the highlight of the current line.
When you delete strings from the last line, the first line was highlighted as the current line on 10.5.x. This problem has been fixed.
Hitting RETURN while selecting the indent part of line auto-indented the new line. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.9.5

release: 2008-07-20

New Features

You can now highlight the current line.
The number of characters from the beginning of the line to the current insertion point is now displayed in the status bar and the Get Info drawer.
You can now inline Script menu items into contextual menu.

Improvements

Revised coloring process on 10.4 or later and adopted RegexKitLite for regular expression search of the syntax coloring function, which made coloring speed about 1.5-4.0 times faster compared to version 0.9.3. (Note that there are slight differences between the new and old regular expression syntax. The default coloring rules are not affected by the differences. See “ReadMe-en.rtf” for more details.)
When opening a read-only document, the warning message is now displayed immediately (used to be displayed when making a change).
Resized the Print dialog smaller.
Modified the way of displaying invisible characters (10.4 or later).
Improved the performance of text inputting.
A colon (:) is now considered as a delimiter when you select a word by double-clicking.
Modified the way of updating Outline Menu during inputting text in order to prevent screen flickering.
“Show wrapped-line mark” in the Window preference and “Fix line height with composite font” in the Format preference are now turned on by default.
Removed “Bounce Dock icon on each file change by another process” from the General preference pane (the setting still works internally, turned on by default).
Modified the item layout of the Get Info drawer.
If the “Sync Find strings with other apps” option is turned on, the strings in the Find field are now all selected only when they are retrieved, and making CotEditor frontmost does not cancel the selection anymore.
When closing the Edit Style sheet by pressing OK, a warning message is now displayed if some errors were detected.
Placed the shortcut button for Help on each Preferences pane.
When CotEditor Preferences is already opened, selecting “Preferences…” now just makes the Preferences window frontmost without centering it.
CotEditor Preferences no longer shows the oval button in the top-right corner of the window (10.4 or later).
Modified the look of the default Style Name on the Edit Style sheet.
Optimized source code.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where the line endings of strings generated by drag-and-dropping or copy-and-pasting were always LF.
Fixed a coloring issue when pasting at the end of a sentence.
Fixed a bug where syntax coloring had not been updated after performing Replace.
Fixed a bug where the Line Number display and the Outline Menu display and the Incompatible Char list had not been updated after performing Replace All.
Revised the English resource of About window.
Fixed a bug where updating Line Number display would cause an endless loop when invisible characters are showed.
When a read-only document was saved as another file, the new file also showed the read-only icon. This problem has been fixed.
If you closed the Find panel while the Find All window opened, switching applications recreated the panel and there was no way to close it. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where editing text erased the highlight.
Fixed a bug where performing Unhighlight after highlighting colored strings erased the color.
Fixed an Edit Style sheet issue where the “Set to Factory Defaults” button would become active incorrectly on 10.5.
On 10.5, when you pressed “+” button on the Edit Style sheet the added item did not become instantly editable, now it does.
After editing a syntax style in the Syntax preference an already opened document using that style will be re-colored when it is made frontmost, but all documents were actually re-colored regardless of their styles. This problem has been fixed.
When CotEditor is not in front, selecting “New” or “Open…” from the Dock icon did not make the new window frontmost. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed an image lag issue when changing the transparency of text view.
When the window was split, changing the transparency of text view did not apply to all views. This problem has been fixed.
Removed a redundant item from the default coloring definition for PHP.

CotEditor 0.9.4

release: 2008-02-01

New Features

Added support for the “com.apple.TextEncoding” extended attribute in order to read/write the encoding of a file (requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later).
The progress sheet showing coloring activity now has the Cancel button.
You can now print a file with syntax coloring enabled.

Improvements

Bundled utility scripts written in Ruby.
The Go To panel now automatically closes after the operation.
“Auto expand tabs to spaces” in the Format preference is now turned off by default.
Single clicking on a character in the Incompatible Char drawer selects the corresponding character (double clicking used to be needed).
Made some performance optimizations, for example, a document having no syntax coloring rule (such as a ‘Plain Text’ file) no longer displays coloring progress.
Implemented new highlight style for Find results (requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later).
Selecting other than “Auto-Detect” for “File Encoding > when opening a file” in the Format preference now brings up a warning message.
The Find function can now automatically retrieve the latest Find string searched in another Cocoa application.
Modified some of the alternative characters to a half-width space.
Readjusted invisible character display position.
Adjusted the layout of the Preferences panes.
Updated build environment to 10.5.1 + Xcode 3.0.
Changed some build options (SDKROOT=10.4u, SDKROOT_i386="", SDKROOT_ppc="", etc.).

Fixes

Fixed a bug where the “Create a new document on startup” and “Open blank window with a reopen AppleEvent” settings in the General preference wouldn't be reflected.
Auto-detection of UTF-16 (on Intel machines) and UTF-8 BOM didn't work properly. This problem has been fixed.
When a document has only one multi-page-long line, the text view would be forcibly scrolled to the last page. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where changing “Encoding” in the Open dialog also changed the “File Encoding” setting for opening files.
Fixed a bug where drag-and-dropping text containing line endings in the same document wouldn't work properly on Mac OS X 10.5.1.
Fixed the line number display on Mac OS X 10.5.1.
Fixed a bug where the “Line numbers” and “Invisible Chars” settings in the Print dialog didn't work properly.
Some of the warning messages were not localized into Japanese. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.9.3

release: 2007-10-01

New Features

The character encoding (IANA character encoding name) and the line ending style in use are now displayed on the status bar.
You can now exclude line endings from character count.

Improvements

Added syntax style files for Haskell and Python.
Revised English localization.
Added the Unhighlight button to the Find panel.
The parameter string of a shell script for storing output data in the clipboard has been changed to 'Pasteboard' (the existing parameter 'Pasteboard puts' can also be used as before).
While an input method is translating, the composed text is no longer considered as a selection in the status bar and the Get Info drawer.
CotEditor runs an AppleScript when launching (as in version 0.9.1 or earlier).

Fixes

When switching panes in the CotEditor preferences using the Tab/arrow/Space key, the toolbar items didn't appear as currently selected. This problem has been fixed.
Corrected a problem where an image could be pasted into the Find panel's Replace field.
Fixed some scrolling bugs.
Fixed a bug where the menu wasn't updated after importing a new syntax file.
Some of the “pre-formatted string” menu items in the File Drop preferences pane didn't show tooltips. This problem has been fixed.
Showing invisible characters such as control characters would slow down the application performance. This problem has been slightly fixed.

CotEditor 0.9.2

release: 2006-10-14

New Features

Invisible characters such as control characters can now be displayed.
When one character is selected, the Unicode code point of the character is now displayed on the Get Info drawer and the status bar.
Added an option for specifying whether to read the encoding declaration.
Added Print preferences.
Implemented the function for highlighting matching braces (ported from Smultron).
Double clicking near a brace selects to the matching brace (ported from Smultron).

Improvements

When switching between Find/Replace fields using the Tab key in the Find panel, text already in the field (if any) is now all selected.
Text in the Find field used to be all selected whenever the Find panel was made frontmost, but it now applies only when the Find panel was called via the Find menu or using the keyboard shortcut, which is the default behavior of OgreKit.
Updated the Outline Menu settings in the default style files for C, C++, Objective-C.
Updated toolbar icons.
Improved auto-detection of ISO 2022-JP, UTF-8, and UTF-16 encoding.
Added Japanese help.
AppleScript no longer runs when launching CotEditor.
Updated development environment.

Fixes

After deleting a string including line endings, edit flag wouldn't be set properly when undoing operations. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where edit flag vanished when you edit a file, save it, undo it, and edit again.
When you paste to the current selection, if the selected string was identical to the clipboard's text and contained line endings, the pasted string remained selected. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed an implicit bug of index conversion between character and glyph under the process of displaying invisible characters.
Fixed a bug where closing a window would cause an application crash.
When beginning a new line at the end of a file, text view didn't always scroll properly. This problem has been fixed.
On version 0.9.1, the status bar wasn't fully localized in Japanese. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.9.1

release: 2006-05-14

New Features

Implemented the Split View function.
Changed the way of generating the completion list, the strings containing signs can now be listed.

Improvements

Added syntax style files for eRuby and Java.
Updated syntax style files for C, C++, Objective-C.
“Additional Text Key Bindings” now doesn't work while the Japanese input method is active.
Double clicking on a character in the “Incompatible Char” drawer now selects the corresponding character and scrolls the window if needed so that the character can be seen.
When editing “Menu Key Bindings” in the Preferences, you can now double click on a collapsed line to expand.
Added tooltips to some navigation view items.
Slightly modified the Preferences layout.
Updated development environment.

Fixes

When selecting multiple lines, the selection's background color would break between lines. This problem has been fixed.
Turning on the “All controls” option for “Full keyboard access” in System Preferences could cause some problems (e.g. hiding the caret in a new document or incorrect behavior of input method). This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where user-configured key bindings couldn't be deleted in the “Menu Key Bindings” setting.
Fixed a bug where current syntax coloring was canceled on each overwrite saving.
With the “Fix line height with composite font” option turned off, line height couldn't be changed. This problem has been fixed.
Corrected the warning message appears when changing file encoding.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.9.0

release: 2006-02-22

New Features

Added a menu/toolbar items for toggling “Show Invisible Characters” and “Show Page Guide.”
Added an option which allows you to exchange the key bindings for inputting a half-width yen/backslash.
The AppleScript ‘document’ object now has a new property ‘line spacing.’
Implemented the function for customizing the background color of selection.
Implemented the function which fixes the line height regardless of the specified font.
Implemented the function which displays marks beside wrapped lines.

Improvements

CotEditor is now Universal Binary.
Updated the default style file for PHP.
Upgraded OgreKit to version 2.1.1.
Updated some toolbar icons.
Text encoding is now variable when reading script files, so the scripts including characters that C-string cannot interpret are now executable.
In the case a possible completion includes parentheses, only the string inside them is now selected.
After changing the line height or the font size, the scroll position is now adjusted so that the caret/selection can be seen.
Slightly enlarged the “Chars” and “Lines” fields on the Get Info drawer.
The Key Bindings preferences pane now has explanations of changing/assigning the Script menu's keyboard shortcuts.
Bundled an instruction for ATOK users.
Updated development environment, changed some build options.

Fixes

An incorrect Undo item was recorded when inputting a line ending, and the scroll position wasn't properly adjusted when beginning a new line at the end of the file. These problems have been fixed.
When hiding line numbers, text area was widened and scrolled incorrectly on toggling the “Wrap Lines.” This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where line numbers were not displayed when changing the font size.
Fixed a bug where the last line's line number would not be displayed.
Corrected some English localizations.
Fixed a bug where the last few lines would be lost when printing a rather long document.
Fixed a bug where the separator line of footer wasn't printed when printing a document less than one page long.
There was an incorrect iteration in the printing process which reduced the speed of printing. This problem has been fixed.
Some of the Japanese resources didn't fit the button size. This problem has been fixed.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.8.6

release: 2005-12-26

New Features

Implemented the function for changing line spacing.

Improvements

Reworked the Completion List setting in the Preferences, and the pop-up list now shows completions in the following order: words in the file, words generated from coloring style, standard words.
Line number of the last empty line is now displayed.
Adjusted invisible character display position.
Added “Use Antialias” and “Show Page Guide” menu items (both apply to the frontmost window).
Enabling/Disabling “Use Antialias” or “Show Page Guide” option in the Preferences now applies to a newly created document.
Reorganized some of the Preferences panes.
When printing, print area now scales reflecting the header/footer setting.
Reworked updating performance of the status bar and the Get Info drawer.
Byte counting during opening a file is no longer performed under 10.4.x so that most files can be opened.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where some umlaut characters couldn't be input using a French keyboard.
Fixed a bug where choosing other than “Auto-Detect” under the File Encoding section in the Format preferences was not reflected.
When only the text view is made transparent, the drawing of character shadows was not updated when scrolling. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where a key binding including ‘@’ couldn't be set properly.
Document icons appeared as generic icons under some environments. This problem has been fixed.
After inserting a line ending character not by a key input but by other ways, such as pasting or using a script, the line ending characters couldn't be searched/replaced till you'd saved the file. This problem has been fixed (CotEditor now always use LF when inserting/replacing).
Fixed a bug where specifying ‘InsertAfterSelection’ or ‘AppendToAllText’ in a script didn't work properly.
Corrected some English localizations.

CotEditor 0.8.5

release: 2005-12-06

New Features

You can now configure possible completions separately from the coloring definition (if no configuration, completions will be generated from the coloring definition as before).
Implemented the Page Guide function which shows a vertical line at a specified character width (as reference).

Improvements

Improved the speed of syntax coloring.
Updated the default style files for PHP, LaTex, HTML.
Assigned Command-D to “Don't Save” on the Close dialogue of unwritable files.
Pressing Shift-Return now inserts ‘<br />’ by the default “Additional Text Key Bindings” setting.
Increased the bottom margin of text area.
Expressly added main file extensions to the build setting (in order to make CotEditor appear in the “Open With” contextual menu in Finder).
Toggling the “Use Antialiasing Text” option is now reflected immediately.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where pressing Delete didn't properly close the completion list.
After operating “Save As,” the right file is now monitored for file change notification.
When closing a locked file that you cannot unlock, a proper alert is now displayed.
Fixed a bug where the ‘find’ AppleScript command couldn't search the line ending characters.
Fixed a bug where Japanese characters were displayed as the hexadecimal Unicode character values in the “Show Extension Error” window.
Corrected some localizations.

CotEditor 0.8.4

release: 2005-11-17

New Features

CotEditor can now read CSS-style ‘@charset’ encoding declaration (interpreting priorities are: ‘charset=’ > ‘encoding=’ > ‘@charset’).
CotEditor now supports file change notification.

Improvements

Updated some Preferences icons.
The document window's text area now has small margin on top and bottom.
Changed the statement of the URL for OgreKit site.
Upgraded development environment to 10.4.3 + Xcode 2.2.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where syntax coloring wasn't reflected when saving a new document.
The AppleScript command ‘replace’ can now replace with blank (delete the matching part).
Fixed a bug where only certain part of a word was colored.
While editing, the bottom of the document was not colored properly. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed wrong implementation of OgreKit.

CotEditor 0.8.3

release: 2005-10-28

New Features

Python scripts can now be added to the Script menu.
The “Open” dialogue can now display hidden files (Clicking the Shift key while showing the File menu toggles this on/off. Can be turned always on by customizing the keyboard shortcut).
The default coloring style can be specified.
You can now customize keyboard shortcuts.
You can now insert text snippets using key bindings.
You can now print documents.

Improvements

The Preferences panes now have icons.
Added syntax style files for LaTeX and Ruby.
Updated the default style file for PHP.
Modified the bundled script “current time.applescript.”
Changed the order of the default encoding list (See the bundled documentation for details).
The “Incompatible Char” drawer now shows converted characters as well.
Incompatible characters were not displayed under some encodings, but they are now always displayed depending only on the result of conversion.
CotEditor now checks the IANA character encoding name when saving a file and displays an alert if it differs from the current encoding.
The file's creation date is no longer changed when saving.
Changed the default keyboard shortcuts for “Input Backslash,” “Input YenMark,” “Reset to Default (font).”
Assigned shortcut to each Panel sub menu.
Changed the display font size of the navigation bar (Outline Menu).
Removed “Open Recent” from the Dock menu under 10.3.9.
Added “Owner” to the Get Info drawer.

Fixes

Fixed a bug which would prevent from editing certain files owned by another user.
Fixed a bug where the update and close notification of the External Editor Protocol were not sent.
Fixed a bug where the warning message didn't show up when failed to open a file dropped on the application icon.
After canceling the dialogue of “Copy Style” in the Syntax preferences pane, the style name was not reverted until relaunching CotEditor. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where the Get Info drawer of a new (and not yet saved) document wouldn't show Creator/Type correctly.
Worked around the problem where coloring indicator seemed to go backward depending on the document's size.
Other minor changes/fixes.

CotEditor 0.8.2

release: 2005-08-30

Fixes

Fixed a bug where Outline Menu's meta character ‘$LN’ didn't work properly.
Corrected some localizations.

CotEditor 0.8.1

release: 2005-08-29

New Features

Implemented the navigation bar which contains Outline Menu that allows quick access to a characteristic part of the document.
Added the “Delay Coloring” option to the Syntax preferences pane, which delays the timing of real-time coloring in order to let CotEditor (seem to) respond faster to your input.
You can now use authentication to open a file even when not having sufficient privilege.
Implemented the function which highlights the characters that are not supported by the specified encoding.

Improvements

Improved performance for inputting text and changing the selection range.
Removed the “Font” menu from the contextual menu.
Changed some names of the preferences panes.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where improper Undo histories remained after reinterpreting the file encoding.
Fixed a bug that would make text displayed with wrong font/size when repeating changing the file encoding.
Fixed a bug where the AppleScript command ‘line range’ would return wrong values.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.8.0

release: 2005-08-14

New Features

Added a menu item for inserting the file's encoding as the IANA character encoding name.
Now supports for the AppleScript command ‘IANA charset’ which is to get the IANA character encoding name of the file's encoding.
The completion list can now contain the words which are in the syntax style file.

Improvements

Added syntax style files for C, C++, Objective-C.
“Finder's Lock” in the Get Info drawer now shows ‘-’ when the file is not locked.
When saving, the “Save” dialogue now shows the file name as its name part selected (excluding the suffix part).
When failed to open a file, the alert now shows proper text.
As opening a file with encoding auto-detection enabled, CotEditor now reads the declaration ‘charset=’ or ‘encoding=’ written in the file and uses it (if any) to determine the character encoding.
File Drop now recognizes uppercase file extensions.
Added ‘FILEEXTENSION’ and ‘FILEEXTENSION-LOWER’ and ‘FILEEXTENSION-UPPER’ to File Drop's pre-formatted strings.
Additional support for the following encodings:
- Traditional Chinese (EUC)
- Simplified Chinese (EUC)
- Traditional Chinese (Windows, DOS)
- Simplified Chinese (Windows, DOS)
- Korean (EUC)
- Korean (Windows, DOS)
(Mac OS X 10.4.x or later now supports the followings as well)
- Unicode (UTF-16BE)
- Unicode (UTF-16LE)
- Unicode (UTF-32)
- Unicode (UTF-32BE)
- Unicode (UTF-LE)
The Encoding List sheet in the Preferences now shows IANA character encoding name as well.
The size of the Encoding List sheet in the Preferences is now memorized.
The “Set to Factory Defaults” button on the Encoding List sheet in the Preferences is now properly turned into clickable/unclickable.
A script for inserting XHTML <pre> tag is now bundled.

Fixes

When changing the character encoding via the toolbar, the new encoding's name sometimes remained shown in the toolbar after clicking Cancel. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where line endings were always set to LF when changing the character encoding.
Fixed a bug where coloring wasn't performed after changing the character encoding.
Some buttons on the “HexColorCode Editor” panel were not displayed correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.9. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where you couldn't drop a file onto the document window.
Fixed a bug where the File Drop preferences pane didn't accept new settings.
Half-width yen signs couldn't be replaced under some character encodings. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.7.3

release: 2005-08-06

New Features

Added toolbar icons for “Edit HexColorCode as Fore” and “Edit HexColorCode as BG.”
Implemented the function which allows you to save files that are read-only or locked in Finder (doesn't work when you are not the file's owner).
Added an option for specifying whether to apply anti-aliasing to text.
Added an option for enabling Smart Insert/Delete.
Added “Select All” to the contextual menu.

Improvements

Enhanced the function of line number displaying, modified the color of line numbers.
Updated the default style file for PHP.
Divided the View preference pane into Window and View.
Under the Syntax preferences pane, enabling/disabling coloring now toggles availability of other controllers.
The Get Info drawer now shows the “Finder's Lock” status of the file.
Modified the status icon which indicates you don't have write permission for the file.
When the document is unwritable, a warning message is displayed on the first attempt to edit or to change its encoding/line ending style, and if you click OK there, the modifications you've made is reflected.
CotEditor now only supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where coloring didn't work when saving a new document for the first time.
Temporarily fixed a bug that would prevent from setting dirty flag when editing right after saving (there still is a problem that blank Undo history is created).
Fixed a memory leak bug of displaying the contextual menu.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.7.2

release: 2005-07-23

Improvements

Updated the default style file for PHP.
The menu items for color code editing are now always available when a window is opened, and they can now open the “HexColorCode Editor” panel (when the selection is not a color code, they only open the panel).
Modified the layout and interface of the “HexColorCode Editor” panel.
Modified the layout of the Get Info drawer.
The Window menu now has the Panels sub menu including Transparency and GoTo.
Rebuilded OgreKit under Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when changing the coloring style.
Fixed a bug where the setting of “Line endings for new document” was not reflected.
“Shift Right/Left” now works properly.
The initial position of the “HexColorCode Editor” panel is now memorized correctly.
You couldn't open “Script Error Window” via the Window menu. This problem has been fixed.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.7.1

release: 2005-07-18

New Features

Implemented the function for editing a hexadecimal color code as foreground/background color.
You can now Undo actions taken before saving the file.

Improvements

Updated application icon.
“ReadOnly” is now displayed with icon.
“Script Error Window” is now a panel.
Changed the background color of the status bar.
The 'position' display on the status bar is now localizable.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where the AppleScript commands ‘length of document,’ ‘contents of document,’ ‘Range of Selection,’ and ‘Contents of Selection’ didn't return proper values.
The status bar now shows correct numbers when the line endings are CRLF.
Fixed a bug where the line endings were not set properly when saving.
Toggling “Line” and “Character” using keyboard shortcut on the “Go to” panel did not actually perform the action. This problem has been fixed.
Syntax coloring is now refreshed when inserting text via a script.
Fixed a bug that would cause an error when redoing.
If CotEditor was launched under Japanese environment, the menu item “Input Backslash” would be displayed garbled. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a memory leak bug of nib file objects.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.7.0

release: 2005-07-10

New Features

Added an option “Drag selected text immediately” which enables dragging just like in Classic or Carbon.apps (experimental implementation).
Added menu items for inputting backslash and half-width yen sign (Option-¥ or Option-y works as well).
Added menu/toolbar item for re-coloring the whole document.
When the “Go to” panel is in front, pressing the shortcut for displaying the panel (Command-L) now toggles between “Character” and “Line.”
Added Japanese localization.

Improvements

Under an encoding that doesn't support half-width yen signs, they are now forcibly replaced with backslashes.
Improved syntax coloring mechanism and removed “Coloring update interval.”
Added syntax style files for Perl, Shell Script, and JavaScript.
Updated the default syntax style file for PHP.
An unwritable document containing change flag now displays the proper “Save” dialogue.
Upgraded OgreKit to version 2.0.2.
When the Find panel is made frontmost, the whole text in the Find field is now selected (reorganized OgreKit).
The Find field is now empty at the initial condition (reorganized OgreKit).
(Updated the documentation concerning the capability of searching a line ending or a tab character.)
Updated toolbar icons.
Slightly improved the performance of the first time invoking an AppleScript script via the Script menu.
When the AppleScript command ‘Replace’ received the Find and Replace strings that are identical to each other, it now returns an error.
After executing the AppleScript command ‘Replace,’ the caret now moves to the head of the inserted text.
The Script menu can now display the appropriate name of a script even if its file name contains ‘. (dot)’ unrelated to file extension or keyboard shortcut.
After editing/deleting a coloring style in the Preferences, coloring will now be updated when a document using that style is made frontmost.
When editing a coloring style in the Preferences, you can now start editing right after adding an element.
The “Show Extension Error” button in the Syntax preferences is now active only when an error occurred.
When all windows are minimized and the CotEditor icon in the Dock is clicked, one window is now always opened out of the Dock regardless of the “Open blank window with reopen AppleEvents” setting in the Preferences.
When checking syntax elements, an alert is now displayed if there are multiple identical strings.
When opening ‘ScriptMenu’ directory via the Script menu, the command is now invoked by AppleScript in order not to choose the About document.
Upgraded development environment to 10.4.1 + Xcode 2.1.
Changed the target processor from G4 to G3.

Fixes

Fixed a memory leak bug due to the process of closing documents.
You could not save documents when using certain combinations of character and encoding. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where the “Go to” menu didn't appear in some previous versions.
The “Open blank window with reopen AppleEvents” option now works properly when the “Create New document at startup” option was turned off in the Preferences.
Fixed a bug that caused an application crash when a shell script you added to the Script menu didn't have any specifying strings for input/output.
Fixed a bug where some menu items were not turned on/off properly.
Fixed a bug that would make replacing-all using the AppleScript command ‘Replace’ extremely slow or hung.
When you copied a coloring style, the default display of the style name contained a file extension. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug that would not update line numbers on reinterpreting document's encoding.
Modified the inner workings.

CotEditor 0.6.5

release: 2005-05-21

New Features

Ruby scripts can now be added to the Script menu.

Improvements

Disabled displaying “Open Recent” in the Dock menu on Mac OS X 10.4.x.
Changed the resource file of the About window to rtf.

Fixes

The bundled AppleScript droplet now launches properly.

CotEditor 0.6.4

release: 2005-04-21

New Features

Added support for the AppleScript command ‘string <xx> in {x,x}’ which returns text not by selecting but by specifying the position/length.
Shell scripts (.sh, .pl, .php) can now be added to the Script menu.
Added support for the External Editor Protocol (ODB Editor Suite).
You can now specify whether to open a blank window with a “Re-Open” AppleEvent.
You can now enable/disable automatic spell checking by default.
Added “New,” “Open,” “Open Recent” to the Dock menu.

Improvements

When a new window that CotEditor automatically opens is staying unmodified, the next window will be opened at the same position.
Increased the speed of initial displaying of invisible characters.
With the “Space” of “Show Invisible Characters” turned on, Non-Breaking Spaces (0x00A0) are now also displayed.
Added ‘<br />’ to the HTML style.
Bundled templates of script files.

Fixes

Fixed a bug where the check mark of “Check Spelling as You Type” didn't appear in the menu.
Fixed a bug where some process didn't run when CotEditor was launched by double-clicking a document.
When CotEditor failed to open a file dropped on the application icon, an error message is now displayed properly.
Opening a certain type of binary file could cause an application crash. This problem has been temporarily fixed.
Wrong icon resource files are bundled in the previous version. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.6.3

release: 2005-07-18

New Features

Added toolbar icons.
Selecting an item via the AppleScript menu while pressing Option and Shift keys now shows the corresponding script in Finder.
Implemented the function which enables you to insert a boilerplate string by dropping a file onto the document window.

Improvements

Slightly increased the process speed of opening a document.
The application icon now has smaller resources than 128 pixel.
“Add” and “Delete” buttons in the Preferences are now displayed as images for better visibility.
History information is now an individual document.
Modified the inner workings.

Fixes

If you executed a shortcut containing the Option key in the AppleScript menu, Script Editor.app was launched to open the script. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.6.2

release: 2005-03-28

New Features

Coloring styles can now be set to factory defaults.
Syntax coloring can now be disabled.

Improvements

Updated the syntax style file for CSS (double/single quotation, comment, etc.).
“Basic coloring” configuration is now in the View preferences pane.

Fixes

CotEditor would fail to open a file when it contains only 2 bytes characters. This problem has been fixed.

CotEditor 0.6.2

release: 2005-07-18

New Features

Additional support for AppleScript commands:
- change kana <selection-object> to [hiragana | katakana]
- unicode normalization <selection-object> to [NFD / NFC / NFKD / NFKC]
- scroll to caret <document>
Selecting an item in the AppleScript menu while pressing Option key now opens the corresponding script with Script Editor.app.
The Utility and AppleScript menu items are now appear in the contextual menu.
The Get Info drawer now shows “Permission.”
An unwritable document now shows “<ReadOnly>” on the status area.
An alert is now displayed when modifying an unwritable document.

Improvements

Changing the line ending style to the style already using is now ignored.
Modified the default toolbar to “Line Endings, File Encoding, Syntax Coloring, (flexible space), Get Info.”
Added syntax style file for CSS.
Updated the default style file for HTML (added ‘¥’ and corrected ‘acronym’).
The AppleScript command ‘select all’ is no longer supported.
Disabled scrolling when changing the selection range with AppleScript commands.
Updated the bundled AppleScript scripts (corrected closing <dl> tag, added <hr />, clarified the documents to that ‘selection’ objects belong).
Slightly modified the About window.
Slightly modified the buttons of the Edit Syntax Coloring sheet.
Increased the minimum number of characters which toggles coloring indicator sheet on opening documents.

Fixes

You couldn't open a window when the specific font for displaying line numbers was not installed. This problem has been fixed.
Fixed a bug where the selection would corrupt after executing AppleScript command ‘shift right’ or ‘shift left.’
The document's coloring style became the extension-based style after saving, even when manually selecting a style other than the one determined by the extension. This problem has been fixed.
The backwards search option of AppleScript command ‘find’ and ‘replace’ is now ‘backwards.’
Fixed a bug that would hide part of text in the Get Info drawer after resizing the document window.
Undo now works properly after failing to save an unwritable file.
Fixed a bug of “Go to” where inputting negative values didn't work.

CotEditor 0.6.0

release: 2005-03-19

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