github coteditor/CotEditor 4.5.0

latest releases: 5.0.0, 5.0.0-rc, 5.0.0-beta.3...
18 months ago

system requirements: macOS 12 and later

New Features

  • Renew the snippets feature to enable naming it, changing the order, and performing from the menu.
  • Add the Insert Snippet submenu to the Text menu.
  • Add a new scope “syntax style” to the snippet feature to perform snippets only in a specific syntax style.
  • Add a new variable “selection” to the snippet feature to place the currently selected text to the inserted text.
  • Enable the character inspector to inspect more information about each Unicode scalar that makes up a character.

Improvements

  • Reconstruct the Snippets (ex. File Drop) and Key Bindings panes in the Settings window.
  • Allow single function key stroke for a keyboard shortcut.
  • Update item order of the Edit menu.
  • Change counting characters/lines/words to count all elements in multiple selections.
  • Change the threshold to trigger the automatic completion to 3 letters to optimize calculation time by large documents.
  • Allow _ as a character for completion candidates.
  • Synchronize the visibility of all navigation/status bars in the application.
  • Optimize the performance of text editing while URL linking is enabled.
  • Make filter highlights of the outline list more legible in the Dark Mode.
  • Update Swift syntax style to add keywords for Swift 5.8.
  • Deprecate the Insert Encoding Name command (use AppleScript instead).
  • Update the help contents.
  • [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2.
  • [dev] Update Yams from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5.

Fixes

  • Fix an issue in the search window that an error dialog for invalid regular expression appeared even on incremental search.
  • Fix an issue that the application did not terminate when no documents exist and the application goes background.
  • Fix an issue that the Replace button in the Find window did not select the next match.
  • Fix an issue on macOS 12 that the buttons at the bottom were not aligned.
  • Fix an issue that all URL links were removed when an external process updated the document.
  • Fix the redo action label for the line endings conversion and file encoding change.

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