coteditor/CotEditor 4.1.0

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system requirements: macOS 11 and later

New Features

• Add a feature to filter outline items in the outline pane.
• Add an option not to draw the background color on printing.
• Add “Open Outline Menu” command to the Find menu.
• Add Turkish (thanks to Emir SARI!) and British English (thanks to Alex Newson!) localizations.
• Introduce a new AppleScript command jump to document objects.
• Introduce a new read-only AppleScript parameter has BOM to document objects and a new option BOM to the convert command.
• Place line number views on the right side in the editor if the writing direction is right-to-left.
• Add syntax style for Protocol Buffer.

Improvements

• Change the system requirement to macOS 11 Big Sur and later.
• Update the window size setting to use the document last window size if the width/height setting in the preferences > Window is left blank (= auto).
• Allow the menu key bindings to assign a shortcut without the Command key.
• Display code points instead of left blank in the incompatible character table for control characters.
• Update Swift syntax style to add keywords added in Swift 5.5.
• Update C++ syntax style to add more file extensions.
• Update Markdown syntax style for faster syntax parsing.
• Change the behavior to include the last empty line in the calculation when specifying lines with a negative value in the Go to Line command or via AppleScript.
• Improve the character info section in the document inspector to display the list of code points for the selected character instead of displaying only when a single Unicode character is selected.
• Update the Unicode block name list for the character inspector from Unicode 13.0.0 to Unicode 14.0.0.
• Make sure the application relaunches even other tasks interrupt before termination.
• Improve some toolbar items to make their state distinguish even collapsed.
• Display the command name in the error message when the input shortcut for key bindings is already taken by another command.
• Improve VoiceOver accessibility.
• Update the AppleScript guide in the help.
• Improve the animation by drag & drop in tables.
• Optimize several document parse.
• [trivial] Adjust the margin of the editor area.
• [trivial] Hide the file extension of setting files by export by default.
• [trivial] Finish key binding input in Key Bindings pane when another window becomes frontmost.
• [trivial] Update some symbols for shortcut keys in the key binding settings.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 13.2 (Swift 5.5).
• [dev] Remove xcworkspace.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle to 2.0.0.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that the current line number becomes 0 when the cursor is placed at the beginning of the document (thanks to Alex Newson!).
• Fix an issue on macOS 12 Monterey that the user custom color did not apply to the i-beam cursor for the vertical layout.
• Fix an issue in the document inspector that the character info section wrongly indicated the code point as U+000A for any kind of line endings, even for CR (U+000D) and CRLF.
• Fix an issue that the dialog urging duplication to edit locked files displayed repeatedly under specific conditions.
• Fix an issue that the slider in the editor opacity toolbar item did not work when collapsed.
• Fix an issue that the editor's opacity change did not apply immediately.
• Fix an issue that some uncustomizable menu commands were provided in the Key Bindings preference pane.
• Fix an issue in the snippet key bindings that shortcuts with only Shift key for modifier keys were accepted though does not work correctly.
• Fix an issue that the initial position of the side pane was occasionally stacked under the window toolbar.
• Fix an issue that some help buttons did not work (thanks to Alex Newson!).
• Fix and minor update on localized strings.
• Fix cot command to work also with Python 3.
• Address an issue that the syntax highlight could flash while typing.