coteditor/CotEditor 7.0.0-beta

7.0.0

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system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Compatibility Changes

• Introduce CotEditor Syntax, a new syntax definition format (the legacy YAML-based syntax definition format is now deprecated; user-created syntaxes are automatically migrated on first launch).

New Features

• Adopt smarter syntax parsing powered by tree-sitter for multiple built-in syntaxes, improving syntax highlighting and outline extraction in C, C#, C++, CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, LaTeX, Lua, Makefile, Markdown (outline extraction only), PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Shell Script, SQL, Swift, and TypeScript.
• Display symbolic icons next to outline items.
• Allow collapsing outline items in the Outline inspector for tree-sitter-based and structured document syntaxes.
• Make smart indentation aware of the current syntax.
• Expand comment delimiter settings in syntax definitions, allowing multiple delimiters and related options.
• Add detailed delimiter settings for strings, characters, and indentation to syntax definitions.
• Add the Multiline option to highlighting rules in syntax definitions so matches can span multiple lines.
• Show the current position in search results in the Find field while navigating between matches (for example, “2/5”).
• Add CurrentLine and ReplaceCurrentLine to the UNIX script input/output keywords for editing the current line in the editor.
• Add Bulgarian localization (thanks to Miroslav Dragoev!).

Improvements

• Improve the syntax-highlighting algorithm for legacy regex-based parsing.
• Update built-in syntaxes.
• Use the user’s window size setting for the Zoom action, if available.
• Improve general text-editing performance.
• Hide line numbers in the window titlebar area when the navigation bar is hidden on macOS Tahoe 26.
• [trivial] Adjust the About CotEditor window.
• [trivial] Rename the Recolor All command to “Reset Syntax Analysis” and move it to the Format menu.
• [trivial] Remove the Restore Defaults button in the syntax editor.
• [trivial] Tweak colors of the default Anura theme.

Fixes

• Fix incorrect syntax parsing in some built-in syntaxes.
• Fix an issue where the default file extension in the save dialog was .txt for syntaxes with a file extension not registered in the system.

Known Issues

• The text added to CotEditor 7.0.0 are not localized yet in Czech and Polish.

Full Changelog: 6.2.6...7.0.0-beta