CotEditor

Lightweight, native plain-text editor for macOS

GitHub 8.7k Open Source Apache-2.0 macOS

CotEditor is a fast text editor built specifically for the Mac. It offers syntax highlighting for many languages, powerful find and replace with regular expressions, multiple cursors, split views and detailed encoding and line-ending controls.

It is a good everyday editor for notes, configuration files and code.

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