Get information about a document in CotEditor

In the document inspector, you can see the various information about your document.

  1. Choose View > Inspector > Document Inspector.
  2. To close the inspector pane, drag the pane separator to the window edge, or choose View > Inspector > Document Inspector again.

Selecting the Inspector item on the toolbar also opens the pane.

The information displayed in the inspector is as follows:

ItemDescription
CreatedThe file creation date and time.
ModifiedThe file modification date and time.
File SizeThe size of the file.
OwnerThe user name of the owner of the file.
PermissionThe file privilege.
Full PathThe absolute path to the file in UNIX format.
EncodingThe current selected text encoding.
Line EndingsThe current selected line endings.
LinesThe number of lines in the document (and the selection).
CharactersThe number of characters in the document (and the selection).
LengthThe length of string in UTF-16 in the document (and the selection).
WordsThe number of words in the document (and the selection). The current language in the Spelling window will be used to interpret words.
LocationThe number of characters before the insertion point.
Current LineThe line number where the insertion point locates.
ColumnThe number of of characters from the head of the current line to the insertion point.
Code PointsThe Unicode hexadecimal codes (UTF-16) for the selected character (displayed only when single character is selected).