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CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
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What is CotEditor?

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.
CotEditor is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
CotEditor is an open source tool with 6.1K GitHub stars and 412 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CotEditor's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses CotEditor?

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Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CotEditor.
Pros of CotEditor
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Excellent support for Japanese encoding

CotEditor's Features

  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Powerful Find & Replace
  • Setting via Click
  • Outline Menu
  • Split View
  • Character Inspector
  • Scriptable
  • Incompatible Characters
  • CJK Language Friendly

CotEditor Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to CotEditor?
BBEdit
It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.
TextMate
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Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
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CotEditor's Followers
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