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CotEditor 3.1.2

  -  18.3 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 3.1.2.


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:
- Add Scripting hook feature for document opening/saving (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!): See “Adding scripting hooks for CotEditor scripts” from the Help menu > CotEditor Scripting Manual > “About Scripting” for details
- Support AppleScript's script bundle (.scptd) for scripting (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!)
- Add a new AppleScript property expands tab for document object (thanks to Kaito Udagawa!)

Improvements:
- Change the outline navigation arrows direction in the navigation bar if text orientation is vertical
- Add tooltips to the line endings menu in the toolbar
- Improve calculation of the vertical position of line numbers
- Tweak the behavior of the incompatible character table and the find result table to highlight the correspondent range in the editor every time when clicking a row in the table
- Update default settings about the visibility of invisible characters
- From this change, the invisible character settings can be reset. If so, please reset from the “Appearance” pane in the preferences
- non-AppStore version: Update Sparkle framework to version 1.15.1

Fixes:
- Fix a possible crash on changing document's encoding lossy
- Fix an issue where application crashed if syntax editor panel becomes too small
- Fix an issue where the print icon in the toolbar didn't work
- Fix an issue where editor views didn't update after changing the body font or the visibility of the other invisible characters
- Fix an issue where no error message raised when a text encoding reinterpretation failed
- Fix an issue where the current line highlight also highlights the last line when the cursor is in the second last line
- Fix an issue where the title of the menu item toggling invisible character visibility didn't reflect the frontmost window state
- Fix an issue where the text size slider in the Touch Bar didn't update if text size was updated excepting via Touch Bar while the slider is shown
- Address an issue with drawing area of zoomed character view in character inspector popover
- Fix a typo in the English menu

Misc:
You can now find CotEditor scripts on GitHub Wiki

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