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CotEditor 3.8.5

  -  16.1 MB  -  Open Source
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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 3.8.5.


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What's new in this version:

Improvements:
- Uncomment comment lines even if the delimiters locate after some indent
- Raise an alert when performing find (or replacement) with “in selection” option while no text is selected
- Change the Console font to monospaced
- Dim the Console content area during the incremental search
- Accept importing custom syntax styles with “.yml” extension
- Avoid re-parsing syntax highlight when the appearance is switched
- Support Dark Mode in the help
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle framework
- [trivial] Tweak some terminology in the menu
- [trivial] Adjust the pinch-zoom pitch

Fixes:
- Fix an issue where the text color in the status bar was sometimes not updated immediately after switching window appearance
- Fix an issue where parsing syntax style files could fail
- Fix an issue where uncommenting inline comments failed when multiple cursors locate in the same line
- Avoid rainbow cursor when about to display the Text menu while selecting large number of text
- Update PHP and Julia syntax styles to remove duplicated keywords

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