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CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

version 4 released 2020-11-14

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  macOS-like
  2.  Colored Text
  3.  File Versioning
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No registration required
  8.  No Coding Required
  9.  Syntax Highlighting
  10.  Works Offline

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Refalm
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This is great if you're looking for an amazing simple text/code editor! Beautifully designed too.

arunshah
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Its really good and fast alternative to texedit when you don’t want to fully load a big editor like Vscode. Its fast and does a lot. Like it!

Spout
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The application requires macOS 10.15 or later.

Norton

There are many releases at github. Simply choose the one for your version of mac. I'm using macOSX version 10.14.6 (18G9216) with CotEditor Version 3.9.7 (437).

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What is CotEditor?

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

Scriptable: Make your own macro in your favorite language, whether it is Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, UNIX shell, AppleScript or JavaScript.

Outline Menu: Extract specified lines with the predefined syntax, and you can jump to the corresponding line.

Powerful Find & Replace: Super powerful find and replace using the ICU regular expression engine.

Split Editor: Split a window into multiple panes to see different parts of your document at the same time.

Incompatible Characters: Check and list-up the characters in your document that cannot convert into the desired encoding.

CJK Language Friendly: Estimate various file encodings accurately, toggle to vertical text mode and keep its line height correctly.

Open Source: CotEditor is developed as an open-source project that allows anyone to contribute. (GitHub https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor)

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CotEditor information

  • Developed by

    JP flagMineko IMANASHI
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    160 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  7,432 Stars
  •  468 Forks
  •  40 Open Issues
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about CotEditor, and it has gotten 41 likes

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