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https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor

Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor

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Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

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# CotEditor

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. The project aims to provide a general plain-text editor for everyone with an intuitive macOS-native user interface.

- __Requirement__: macOS 13 Ventura or later
- __Web Site__:
- __Mac App Store__:
- __Languages__: English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

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## Source Code

CotEditor is a purely macOS native application written in Swift. It adopts Cocoa's document-based application architecture and respects the power of `NSTextView`.

### Development Environment

- macOS 14 Sonoma
- Xcode 15.2
- Swift 5.9
- Sandbox enabled

## Contribution

CotEditor has its own contributing guidelines. Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) through before you create an issue or make a pull-request.

## How to Build

### Build for Ad-hoc usage

For those people who just want to build and play with CotEditor locally.

1. Run the following commands to resolve dependencies.
- `git submodule update --init --recursive`
1. Open `CotEditor.xcodeproj` in Xcode.
1. Change to ad-hoc build mode:
1. Open `Configurations/CodeSigning.xcconfig`.
1. Comment out `#include "CodeSigning-Default.xcconfig"`.
1. Uncomment `#include "CodeSigning-AdHoc.xcconfig"`.
1. Build "CotEditor" scheme in the workspace.

### Build for distribution

1. Run the following commands to resolve dependencies.
- `git submodule update --init --recursive`
1. Open `CotEditor.xcodeproj` in Xcode.
1. Build "CotEditor" scheme in the workspace.

## License

© 2005-2009 nakamuxu,
© 2011, 2014 usami-k,
© 2013-2024 1024jp.

The source code is licensed under the terms of the __Apache License, Version 2.0__. The image resources are licensed under the terms of the [__Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License__](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.