CotEditor VS script-commands

CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source.

https://coteditor.com/

https://github.com/coteditor/

CotEditor is pretty nice.

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 BBEdit (for some advanced commands only it can do), Sublime Text (for quick opening and searching of directories of text).

My favourite editor: CotEditor https://coteditor.com (for it's unbelievable speed of launching, solid language/character-set support in particular Japanese; let down in only one way - it won't open folders of files). Highly recommended!

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

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

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).

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 often. - Aerials is beautiful. Make it your screensaver.

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

I like CotEditor

Sure! Again, I use Raycast, along with it's Raycast AI[2] feature and it's snippets feature. And then for a bunch of other stuff, I have Raycast script commands[4] (mostly specially-formatted shell + Python scripts) that do API gluing to internal apps, such as our help desk and MDM systems, as well as Linux servers via SSH.

For help desk tickets, I have a script that pulls new tickets, reads in the information for each ticket, determines a likely response/resolution/followup questions ("I see you did not include an (asset tag|screenshot) with your ticket. Could you please add that?", "It looks like this knowledge base article might help. ").

I also use the Raycast AI commands "Improve Writing" and "Summarize" several times a day on emails, documentation, tickets, etc. Essentially, I select text in any window, hit a keyboard shortcut to launch that action and it quickly performs the action on the selected text. Super quick.

My goal is to automate anything I do >= once per day.

My tier 1 is Raycast here, but I had much of this on Alfred (what I used prior), much of this with formerly Albert and now ulauncher on my Linux box, and with the launcher that comes with Power Toys on Windows.

1. https://www.raycast.com/

2. https://manual.raycast.com/ai

3. https://manual.raycast.com/snippets

4. https://github.com/raycast/script-commands and https://manual.raycast.com/script-commands

A script can take up to 3 arguments. (see https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/documentation/ARGUMENTS.md)

I only know the official one at https://github.com/raycast/script-commands

It is possible, although not that smooth. You have to add this script to your command scripts in Raycast. Then you can assign > as a shortcut and you'll be able to do what you want. The only difference is that you need to type >, then space, then command.

there's this script: https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/developer-utils/create-image-from-code.sh

color picker

There's just one thing I can not do: write an email to a contact. In Alfred I could write e.g. "email tom" and it will auto suggest people from my contacts and it would open a new email to the selected contact. Is there something similar in Raycast? All I could find is an email script command (https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/system/new-email.sh) that opens a new email window, but it's not possible to select a contact, you have to enter the email address.

To add it to Raycast follow instructions detailed here: raycast/script-commands:.

Not sure if I'm missing something. The title says the app is open source, but checking GitHub, I see extensions and script-commands, and I don't think the "main" repo is there