6.2.2

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

New Features

• Add the --goto option to the cot command-line tool as syntactic sugar for the --line and --column options. See --help or the user guide for details.
• Add Chinese (Hong Kong) localization (thanks to changanmoon!).

Improvements

• Improve the text encoding detection algorithm.
• Update the C++ syntax to include the .cu and .cuh filename extensions.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in the syntax editor where the outline title field occasionally became uneditable.
• Fix an issue in the Outline inspector where matches filtered by the filter field were not highlighted.
• Update the Swift syntax to fix outline extraction.

6.2.1

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Improve word deletion to treat periods and colons as word delimiters.
• Update the filter after duplicating a file in the file browser.
• Update the user guide.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in the file browser where files weren’t hidden when the document’s folder name matched the filter string.
• Fix an issue where the app crashed when cutting rectangular selections at the end of a document with CRLF line endings.

Full Changelog: 6.2.0...6.2.1

6.2.0

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

New Features

• Add a feature to export and import settings to transfer them to another Mac.
• Allow opening alias and symlink documents from the file browser.
• Request file access permission from the user by the “Open in New Window” command instead of simply presenting an error when CotEditor doesn’t have permission.
• Display the original path for alias and symlink files in file preview views.
• Support for importing multiple replace definitions from tab-separated values.

Improvements

• Syntax highlighting now takes nesting into account when highlighting symbol pairs.
• Update the Lua syntax to support nested string delimiters.
• Update the contents and layout of the user guide.

Fixes

• Fix an issue in CotEditor 6.1.2 where the text entered in a split editor didn’t match the theme's text color.
• Fix an issue where the default syntax setting reverted to Plain Text after a short time when set to None.
• Fix an issue where scroll bars in the editor became invisible under certain theme and appearance combinations.
• Fix an issue in the Donation settings pane where the purchase button for the one-time donation didn’t work on subsequent attempts.
• Address an issue where scrolling the editor with arrow keys caused unexpected jumps.
• [trivial] Fix the vertical scroller drawing with the RTL writing mode on macOS 26.

Full Changelog: 6.1.2...6.2.0

6.1.2

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Keep the selection in the file browser when filtering by filename.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where changing the theme color while a document is in front of the Settings window immediately overwrites the editor’s text color with the selected color.
• Fix an issue where an incremental search with the global search text is automatically performed when the application becomes active.
• Fix an issue where the file browser prompts an error message when selecting a symlink or alias whose original is unavailable.

Full Changelog: 6.1.1...6.1.2

6.1.1

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Reset filename filtering by performing the Add File/Folder commands.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where the editor doesn’t receive focus by document opening when the system keyboard navigation feature is enabled.
• Fix an issue where a focus ring appears in an empty area in the navigation bar by document opening when the system keyboard navigation feature is enabled.
• Fix an issue in the file browser where the the items are not sorted when a top-level item was renamed.
• Fix an issue in the Quick Action bar where the last input remains.
• Fix an issue in editors where the word selection doesn’t expand properly when dragging the mouse.

Full Changelog: 6.1.0...6.1.1

6.1.0

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

New Features

• Introduce the filter feature in the file browser.
• Introduce the “Insert comment delimiters after indent” option to the Edit settings pane.
• Revert the “Append a space to comment delimiter” option to the Edit settings pane.
• Add Russian localization (Thanks to Andrey!).

Improvements

• Improve the algorithm to comment out block comments.
• Ignore .git folders in the file browser.
• Prevent moving focus to the editor when selecting a document in the file browser.
• Update the Verilog syntax to support SystemVerilog.
• Update the Swift syntax.
• [trivial] Adjust the layout of the Settings window.
• [trivial] Update the Unicode block name list.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 26.1.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where the counts in the status bar are occasionally unavailable when the document is opened.
• Fix an issue where the text fields in sheet dialogs don’t get focus when they appear.

Full Changelog: 6.0.4...6.1.0

6.0.4

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Improve the user interface details on macOS 26.
• Enable the enhanced runtime security protections.
• Ensure that the sidebar is always displayed when opening a folder document.
• Improve the “Open with External Editor” button in file preview views to allow specifying the application to open.
• [trivial] Display a confirmation dialog after changing the “Reopen windows from last session” option in the General settings pane.
• [trivial] Make text in the information part of the About window selectable.
• [dev] Update Yams from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0.1.

Fixes

• Workaround an issue on macOS 26 where the editor’s scroller tracks have a different style compared to standard scrollers.
• Fix an issue where the counts in the status bar are occasionally unavailable when the document is opened.
• Fix an issue in the vertical text orientation where the line number view is tucked beneath the titlebar when the navigation bar is hidden.
• Fix an issue in the multiple replacement window where the text selection is unexpectedly canceled.
• Fix an issue where the editor in a document opened by replacing with a blank document doesn’t initially have focus.
• Fix an issue in the Find All command where the result view doesn’t display the correct document title when the target document was created by replacing with a blank document.
• Fix an issue where the line endings pop-up button doesn’t work when the document was opened in a blank document.
• Fix an issue in the multiple replacement window where the sidebar can be collapsed.
• Fix an issue where the syntax mapping conflict view cannot be closed.

Full Changelog: 6.0.3...6.0.4

6.0.3

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Change the default editor font size to 13 pt.

Fixes

• Fix an issue on macOS 15 where the horizontal scroller appears in editors even when setting lines to wrap.
• Address a potential crash on macOS 26 that can occur when opening a document.

Full Changelog: 6.0.2...6.0.3

6.0.2

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Fixes

• Fix an issue on macOS 26 where the application crashes by opening the Donation settings pane while a system theme color other than Multicolor is selected in the System Settings > Appearance.
• Fix an issue where the theme setting changes unexpectedly when opening the Appearance settings pane after switching the system appearance mode.
• Fix an issue where the indentation style detection doesn’t work.

Full Changelog: 6.0.1...6.0.2

6.0.1

system requirements: macOS 15 and later

Improvements

• Avoid assigning the Shift+Return shortcut key for a snippet.
• [trivial] Update find result messages.
• [dev] Update the build environment to Xcode 26.0.
• [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.8.0-beta.3 to 2.8.0.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where the file browser doesn't show the entire filenames when the scroller slot is shown.
• Fix an issue where the “Convert Indentation” commands don’t convert if no characters are selected.
• Fix an issue where the input fields in the Find window accept rich text.
• Address a potential crash on macOS 26 that occurs when performing a keyboard shortcut.
• Address a potential crash on macOS 26 that can occur when opening a document on an Intel-based Mac.
• [trivial] Fix an issue where the default encoding pop-up button in the Format settings pane is positioned incorrectly.

Known Issues

• The scroller slots of the editor are drawn in a different style from the standard scrollers in macOS 26 (FB20310722).
• The application crashes by opening the Donation settings pane when a system theme color other than Multicolor is selected in the System Settings > Appearance (FB20281734).

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...6.0.1