coteditor/CotEditor 4.4.0

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system requirements: macOS 12 and later

New Features

• Add Advanced Character Count feature to the Text menu.
• Dynamically prioritize the scripts in the subfolder whose name is the same as the frontmost document's syntax style when the same keyboard shortcut is determined in multiple CotEditor scripts.
• Add URL Encode/Decode commands to the Text > Transformations submenu.
• Display a dot in the window tab if the document has unsaved changes.
• Add the option to draw the separator line between the line number view and the editor.
• Add syntax styles for DOT (Thanks to usr-sse2!) and TypeScript.

Improvements

• Support macOS 13 Ventura.
• Change the system requirement to macOS 12 Monterey and later.
• Improve the Find All button only on macOS 13 Ventura (and later) to enable performing additional commands.
• Store the state of the “Don’t ask again for this document” option for the inconsistent line endings alert and respect it for future open.
  • [for advanced users] Now you can also disable the feature entirely within the application by running the following command in Terminal: defaults write com.coteditor.CotEditor suppressesInconsistentLineEndingAlert -bool YES, though it is not recommended.
• Deprecate the length property in AppleScript (Use number of characters of contents instead).
• Support the split cursor for bidirectional languages in multi-cursor editing.
• Update the CotEditor's setting view in the print panel.
• Change the location and column count to start with zero.
• Add the history menu to the regular expression patterns in the pattern sort dialog.
• Display the error message in the pattern sort dialog if the regular expression pattern is invalid.
• Improve the algorithm to parse numbers in the Sort by Pattern command.
• Improve the algorithm of uncommenting.
• Improve the algorithm of encoding detection.
• Improve VoiceOver support.
• Deprecate the “Ignore line endings when counting characters” option.
• Deprecate the option to hide file size in the status bar.
• Remove the text length display in the document inspector.
• Improve stability.
• [trivial] Adjust ticks in the line number view for vertical orientation.
• [trivial] Save documents asynchronously.
• [trivial] Visually adjust the filter field in the outline inspector.
• [trivial] Organize the editor's contextual menu.
• [trivial] Improve the basic regular expression syntax reference.
• [trivial] Improve the status bar display.
• [trivial] Optimize the script menu update.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 14.1 (macOS 13 SDK).
• [dev] Migrate helpindex to cshelpindex.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Optimize the script menu update.

Fixes

• Fix an issue that the empty draft documents silently discarded remained in the Open Recents menu.