CotEditor Reviews and details

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• Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here

  I've been using CotEditor for a while and I really like it: https://coteditor.com Mac native and open source. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova

  Thanks for writing this up so beautifully. I'm an old Mac user and user Nova daily, mostly for Playdate development. It has been very unstable/crash-prone recently, agreed. The major crasher that lost me much work was fixed in a recent update, so I no longer want to delete the app but I would still appreciate it if they could take the accelerator off and fix all the crashers. I also have the following installed... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  CotEditor - Price: Free Text editor for macOS that features syntax highlighting and a user-friendly interface. Source: 10 months ago

• Software Developer Mac Apps

  CotEditor, which is like TextEdit except actually useful for non-text documents (e.g. I write a lot of Markdown in it). Source: 12 months ago

• What are your favourite apps?

  CotEditor - Plain text editor but with many more features and a clean macOS UI. Absolutely a must-have for basic file editing (e.g. Markdown). Source: about 1 year ago

• Getting my first MacBook today (been PC for 25 yrs) and planned on using the native apps - any suggestions on 3rd party downloads?

  Some recommendations: - Find a better mail client, the default is archaic. - ProtonVPN truly speaks for itself. - AdGuard For Safari is unbeatable. - The Unarchiver, for all your unzipping needs. - Infuse or INAA for video media. - CotEditor for your coding/text editing. - Rectangle for app window snapping. - LuLu stops unauthorized outgoing connects. - Do Not Disturb, if you leave it unattended... Source: about 1 year ago

• MacOS alternatives to Atom

  As others gave mentioned VSCode is probably the best replacement but for something less overkill I often use CotEditor. It’s downloaded via the App Store but is free, open source, apple silicon ready and also has a command line helper tool. Https://coteditor.com. Source: about 1 year ago

• What’s your notepad++ alternative for mac?

  CotEditor Has tabs, syntax highlighting, etc. Lightweight. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is the Notepad++ of MacOs?

  Or of course https://coteditor.com. Source: over 1 year ago

• How would I get a TextEdit file to stop saving as .txt and instead as .html

  For any kind of basic text and code editing I use CotEditor. It's free, has useful functions and syntax highlighting for almost anything. It's more lightweight than Atom/Brackets.io and thus way faster. Source: almost 2 years ago

• text apps

  CotEditor is imo the best text editor I've ever used other than vim, but fortunately kindaVim integrates with it smoothly, so. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Rust Editors to Replace TextMate 2

  As someone who just recently, as in last weekend, came to the same conclusion to leave textmate behind after 15 years service, this article is a bit redicoulus but I ended up with a split between CotEditor for simple formats and CodeRunner for LaTeX and R that requires code execution and have so far been pleasently surpriced with CotEditor but havent had a lot of time to use CodeRunner yet. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Help! This was somehow imported to my phone as a note. Can someone please tell me how to read it or revert it back into whatever it’s supposed to be

  Luckily, there are plenty of code editors out there and some are free. If you don't know any, try CotEditor. You can choose which encoding scheme it will use in File > Open menu. Source: almost 2 years ago

• TextEdit alternatives?

  Yes, CotEditor. Been using it for years to quick edit files. Source: about 2 years ago

• Mac Apps That You Have Been Using For Long Time

  CotEditor - Wanted a really simple text editor which saves previous opened files when closed - So I use it for very quick braindumps or when I need to take notes quickly. Source: about 2 years ago

• CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS

  CotEditor (https://coteditor.com) is a well written, open-source (https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor), lightweight, native (Swift), lightweight plain-text editor that many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean developers love to use. I highly recommend it. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• CotEditor - Very versatile and Open Source

  I switched to CotEditor from Sublime. It is very versatile and great. Source: about 2 years ago

• Good open-source alternatives to essential paid Mac apps

  Coteditor is a lightweight text/code editor with support for "50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown". Source: about 2 years ago

• Text editor to change encoding

  Not sure if it's the best text editor out there. CotEditor works well, and it’s free. Source: over 2 years ago

• Writing app for MacOS

  Maybe too minimum for you, but I've used CotEditor to write for years. Source: over 2 years ago

• De-duplicate app

  But unless you're making automation scripts, you really don't need to do everything in command-line. You can always find a code editor to do all what you want (including delete duplicated lines), such as BBEdit, CotEdit (https://coteditor.com) or Visual Studio Code with DupCheck (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jianbingfang.dupchecker) mod. Source: over 2 years ago