system requirements: macOS 14 and later
New Features
- Display information about the selected image in the preview view for the file browser.
- Add the “Add period with double-space” option to the Mode setting options (deselected by default).
- Add the toolbar item for Writing Tools to the toolbar customization options (only for macOS 15.2 and later and when the Writing Tools feature is available).
Improvements
- Allow insertion points only at the same number of wrapped lines by rectangular selection.
- Allow selections only at the same number of wrapped lines by selecting the column up/down.
- Update the document’s syntax based on the filename when renaming it in the file browser.
- Always open a file as a plain-text document if its file extension or filename is determined by syntaxes.
- Enhance the “Move Focus to Next/Previous Editor” commands to move the focus to the main editor if it’s outside the editors.
- Update the default keyboard shortcuts for split editor-related commands.
- Replace the “Open with External Editor” button with the “Show in Finder” button when the file selected in the file browser is alias.
- Display the icon preview for a symbolic link selected in the file browser instead of showing a dialog.
- Expand the draggable area in the Quick Action bar.
- Update the JavaScript syntax to include the .mjs file extension.
- [trivial] Enable the sudden termination feature provided by the macOS system.
- [trivial] Make the close window in the About window the standard size.
- [trivial] Update the User Guide.
- [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 16.2 (macOS 15.2 SDK).
Fixes
- Fix an issue that the application no longer automatically terminated when the app went to the background without open documents.
- Fix an issue that the file browser showed nothing for folders containing broken links.
- Fix an issue that the application became unresponsive when renaming a filename in the file browser that contained newline characters.
- Fix an issue that the printing area in the print preview was trimmed when line numbers were drawn.
- Fix an issue that the window height unexpectedly shrunk when opening a document with the vertical layout orientation from the file browser.
- Fix an issue in the
cot
command that the--wait
option relaunched CotEditor when the app was quit instead of closing the document. - Fix an issue in the
cot
command that the--wait
option did not wait for the window to close if the application was not yet launched when running the command. - Fix an issue that undetermined text conversions were ignored when submitting in some dialogs.
- [trivial] Fix the Help button in the Donation settings pane.
Full Changelog: 5.0.5...5.0.6