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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

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
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Top Positive Comment
Refalm
1

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

MCQ333
0

I had to download a very old version that didn't have spanish translation but it was not too hard to add it.

Johannes Deml
0

Simple lightweight text editor for Mac. Useful for quickly editing single files where you don't want to start a full fleged IDE.

arunshah
1

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
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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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Install from the command line

  • brew install --cask coteditor

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

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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  •  8,600 Stars
  •  541 Forks
  •  13 Open Issues
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about CotEditor, and it has gotten 48 likes

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