CotEditor User Guide

• Welcome
• Work with documents

  • Create or open documents
  • Save documents
  • Open folders
  • Open hidden files
  • Open aliases or symlinks
  • Print a document
  • Make a document read-only
• View document details

  • Get information about a document
  • Get information about a character
  • Handle various types of line endings
  • Find inconsistent line endings
  • Go to a specific line
  • Show invisible characters
  • Count characters
  • Split the editor
• Edit text

  • Paste text
  • Edit multiple points
  • Indent text
  • Find and replace text
  • Find and replace a line ending
  • Replace text using multiple rules
  • Sort lines using patterns
  • Complete a word
  • Insert a snippet
  • Enter a character using Unicode code point
  • Normalize Unicode text
  • Switch editor modes
  • Use regular expressions
  • Insert text from camera
• Parse document’s syntax

  • Analyze the syntax of a document
  • Inspect the outline of a document
  • Define a syntax
  • Map files to syntaxes
• Handle text encodings

  • Open a document with a specified encoding
  • Change a document’s text encoding
  • Detect a document’s text encoding
  • Find characters incompatible with the document encoding
  • Customize text encoding priorities
  • Use four kinds of Shift JIS properly
• Operate CotEditor

  • Perform actions by typing
  • Work with cot command
• Customize CotEditor

  • Change settings
  • Change fonts
  • Customize a theme
  • Customize keyboard shortcuts
  • Customize toolbar
  • Export and import settings
• Automate CotEditor with scripts

  • Automate tasks with scripting
  • Automate tasks using AppleScript
  • Automate tasks using UNIX scripts
  • Customize the Script menu
  • Run script on specific events
  • Support different CotEditor versions in AppleScript
• Troubleshooting

  • If a document appears garbled
  • If syntax highlighting doesn’t look correct
  • If your keyboard shortcut doesn’t work as you expect
  • If CotEditor quits unexpectedly
  • If you can’t find a solution
• Learn about CotEditor

  • CotEditor’s source code
  • Release notes
  • Important changes in the past

    • Important changes on CotEditor 7.0
    • Important changes on CotEditor 4.2
    • Important changes on CotEditor 2.2
    • Important changes on CotEditor 2.0
  • What’s New

    • What’s new in CotEditor 7.0
    • What’s new in CotEditor 6.2
    • What’s new in CotEditor 6.1
    • What’s new in CotEditor 6.0
    • What’s new in CotEditor 5.2
    • What’s new in CotEditor 5.1
    • What’s new in CotEditor 5.0
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.8
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.7
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.6
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.5
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.4
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.3
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.2
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.1
    • What’s new in CotEditor 4.0
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.9
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.8
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.7
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.6
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.5
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.4
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.3
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.2
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.1
    • What’s new in CotEditor 3.0
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.5
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.4
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.3
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.2
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.1
    • What’s new in CotEditor 2.0
  • Uninstall CotEditor