CotEditor

Name: CotEditor
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

CotEditor is an open source, text editor written in Swift.

Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Code Editor

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Avg rating of 5 (2)| 3 comments

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 Features

File VersioningCotEditor has a version system that lets you view and go back to older versions of the project/file/document.
LightweightCotEditor consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CotEditor without registration.

CotEditor information

Developed byMineko IMANASHI
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
Written in
Apple Swift
RatingAverage rating of 5
Alternatives146 alternatives listed

Supported Languages

English

GitHub repository

5,308 Stars
394 Forks
92 Open Issues
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Refalm

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Top positive comment• ago

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

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arunshah

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Top positive comment• ago

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!

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Spout

Comment• ago

The application requires macOS 10.15 or later.

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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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