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CotEditor

coteditor

Lightweight Plain Text Editor for macOS.

Runs as cot|macOS|coteditor.com

Open form in Otty otty.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

CotEditor in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· Application Support/CotEditor/ Sync

· Preferences/com.coteditor.CotEditor.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/coteditor/otty.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "coteditor"

name = "CotEditor"

homepage = "https://coteditor.com"

description = "Lightweight Plain Text Editor for macOS."

# The app icon its homepage publishes; the 1024px one beside it is too large

# to cache.

icon = "https://coteditor.com/img/appicon/128@2x.png"

# `cot` is the command-line tool CotEditor installs to open files in the

# editor. It carries no configuration of its own, so it is filed under the

# editor whose settings it reaches — the same way `subl` is filed under

# Sublime Text.

executables = ["cot"]

platforms = ["macos"]

[dotfiles]

# CotEditor is sandboxed — CotEditor/CotEditor.entitlements sets

# com.apple.security.app-sandbox — so everything below resolves inside its

# container rather than straight under ~/Library.

# CotEditor/Sources/Setting Managers/SettingFileManaging.swift:

# applicationSupportDirectory(component:) is ".applicationSupportDirectory"

# with "CotEditor" and then a per-manager subdirectory appended, and

# userSettingDirectoryURL is that path — "The user setting directory URL in

# Application Support". The subdirectory names come from the managers

# themselves: "Syntaxes" (SyntaxManager.swift), "Themes" (ThemeManager.swift)

# and "Replacements" (ReplacementManager.swift), so the CotEditor directory is

# listed whole rather than one subdirectory at a time.

# Everything in the settings window — appearance, the format defaults, the key

# bindings KeyBindingManager loads — is UserDefaults, which for a sandboxed app

# is the plist inside the container.

paths = [

"~/Library/Containers/com.coteditor.CotEditor/Data/Library/Application Support/CotEditor/",

"~/Library/Containers/com.coteditor.CotEditor/Data/Library/Preferences/com.coteditor.CotEditor.plist",

]

# The caches the Homebrew cask `coteditor` zaps (~/Library/Caches/…, the

# generated help indexes) are outside the two paths above.

# Syntax definitions, themes and multiple-replacement sets are documents the

# user wrote. Nothing here is a credential.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the plist is a binary property list, which neither prefix

# nor key_path matching can read, and the setting files are the preferences a

# user wants on every Mac.

[commands]

format = 1

label = "Open in CotEditor"

description = "Open files in CotEditor, optionally at a line and column, or create a blank document."

quality = "ai-draft"

base = "fig:cot"

parser = { end_of_options = "--", interleave = "permute", long_equals = true, short_attached = true, short_bundles = false }

[[commands.source]]

id = "fig"

kind = "completion"

url = "https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete/blob/master/src/cot.ts"

license = "MIT"

[[commands.field]]

id = "files"

label = "Files"

type = "path"

position = 0

multiple = true

path = { kind = "file", role = "input" }

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "line"

label = "Line"

description = "Jump to a specific line in the opened document."

type = "integer"

option = ["--line", "-l"]

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "column"

label = "Column"

description = "Jump to a specific column in the opened document."

type = "integer"

option = ["--column", "-c"]

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "wait"

label = "Wait until closed"

type = "boolean"

option = ["--wait", "-w"]

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "background"

label = "Keep in background"

description = "Do not bring the application to the foreground."

type = "boolean"

option = ["--background", "-g"]

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.field]]

id = "new"

label = "New blank document"

type = "boolean"

option = ["--new", "-n"]

sources = ["fig"]

[[commands.task]]

id = "open"

label = "Open files"

fields = ["files", "line", "column", "wait", "background"]

required = ["files"]

[[commands.task]]

id = "new"

label = "New document"

set = { new = [true] }

fields = ["new", "background"]

required = []

[[commands.group]]

id = "basic"

label = "Basic"

fields = ["files", "line", "column", "new"]

[[commands.group]]

id = "advanced"

label = "Behavior"

fields = ["wait", "background"]

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/coteditor. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.