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CotEditor for Mac

CotEditor 3.6.0

  -  25.8 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of CotEditor 3.6.0.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of CotEditor for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

New Features:
- Support Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 Mojave
- Add a new theme “Dendrobates (Dark)”
- Add new commands to transform selections to snake case, camel case, or pascal case
- Add “Emoji & Symbols” toolbar item
- Add an option to select the default writing direction among left-to-right, right-to-left, and vertical (Customize in Window preferences pane)
- non-AppStore ver.: The non-AppStore application binary is now notarized by Apple

Improvements:
- Change the system requirement to macOS 10.12.2 Sierra and later
- Update cot command-line tool to return the focus to the client terminal window again after --wait
- Abandon the ancient ODB editor support
- trivial: Improve the high contrast mode support
- trivial: Optimize the performance of line number drawing
- dev: Update build environment to Xcode 10 (Swift 4.2, macOS 10.14 SDK)
- non-AppStore ver.: Enable Enhanced Runtime protection
- non-AppStore ver.: Update Sparkle framework

Fixes:
Fix an issue where theme was not applied to document print when the print theme setting is “Same as Document's Setting”
Fix an issue where “Copy as Rich Text” command lost the style information when paste to some specific applications, such as Pages
Fix an issue where the current line highlight could blink while pinch zoom