Table of Contents

• Welcome
• Inspect documents

  • Get information about a document
  • Get information about a character
  • Handle various types of line endings
  • Find inconsistent line endings
  • Go to a specific line
  • Display invisible characters
  • Split editor
  • Print a document
  • Open hidden files
  • Work with cot command
• Edit text

  • Edit multiple points
  • Select rectangular area
  • Indent text
  • Input a character using Unicode code point
  • Paste text
  • Find or replace text
  • Find or replace a line ending
  • Replace text by multiple rules
  • Sort lines using specific pattern
  • Complete a word
  • Drop files to editor
  • Use the regular expression
• Parse document syntax

  • Build Outline of a document
  • Define a syntax style
  • Define syntax highlighting
  • Define comment delimiters
  • Define Outline extraction rules
  • Map files to syntax styles
• Handle document’s text encoding

  • Find characters incompatible with document encoding
  • Change priorities of text encodings
  • Use encoding declarations for encoding detection
  • Use four kinds of Shift JIS properly
• Customize CotEditor

  • Change preferences
  • Change font type
  • Customize themes
  • Change the scope of completion words
  • Customize key bindings
  • Customize toolbar
• Script CotEditor

  • Script CotEditor
  • Script CotEditor with AppleScript
  • Script CotEditor with UNIX script
  • Customize the Script menu
  • Add scripting hooks for CotEditor scripts
  • Support different CotEditor versions in AppleScript
• Solve problems

  • If characters aren’t displayed correctly
  • If syntax coloring seems not working properly
  • If the Yen sign appears as a backslash
  • If your key bindings don’t work as you expect
  • If you can’t save a file
  • If CotEditor quits unexpectedly
  • If you can’t find a solution
• Learn about CotEditor

  • CotEditor’s source code
  • Release notes
  • Important changes

    • Important changes on CotEditor 4.2
    • Important changes on CotEditor 2.2
    • Important changes on CotEditor 2.0
  • What’s New

    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.3?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.2?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.1?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.0?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.9?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.8?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.7?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.6?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.5?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.4?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.3?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.2?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.1?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.0?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.5?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.4?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.3?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.2?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.1?
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.0?
  • Uninstall CotEditor