![]() ![]() Overall, Textastic is a great text editor. “… an advanced code editor for iPad with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH. This folder is then accessible by Textastic. Using the app, I can save a repo to the iOS file system. Additionally, I like using TextExpander and Working Copy lacks this integration. Working Copy does not have an obvious mehod to do the folder duplication. To simplify this, I created several “draft templates” that i duplicate and then use as a basis for a post. Since I utilize Hugo, my posts are each in their own folder and require front matter to generate. I find that it lacks several small quality of life features. The cloned files can be edited directly in Working Copy. I can’t stress enough how easy Working Copy makes using git. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories.” My writing workflow for this site consists of 2 apps, Working Copy and Textastic. I have solved this issue by doing most of my writing via iOS. One small barrier for me with my blog is the need to open up my laptop to draft a post. I have learned over time, that sometimes removing small, annoying barriers is a good way for me to jumpstart building a habit. I keep trying to restart because, at best, I am a mediocre writer but practice could help me improved. It’s especially handy to me on the iPad, so I’m hoping it shows up soon.Ĭheck Textastic out on iTunes (affiliate link) and visit the Textastic homepage for more info.Over the years i have tried at various times to start and restart my website. If you read my blog, you know this is one of my most-requested features in any text editor. There’s only one thing I find lacking right now: paired symbol (quotes, brackets, etc.) wrapping when there’s a text selection and the left character of a pair is typed. It covers numbers, punctuation and many symbols all in one row. There are five symbols per button, and you just tap and pull to a corner to insert that symbol. The gesture-based extra keyboard row is awesome.Moving files around is a breeze with unique handling of the directory tree.You can also run Textastic as its own WebDAV server to connect to it from a desktop computer.Textastic handles a slew of remote connection options, including FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox, and iDisk.Import definition files for custom templates, snippets and code completion, as well as Textmate-compatible theme/syntax definitions.Favorite part: you can quickly switch which side of the selection the cursor keys are controlling to modify a selection in either direction. Navigation/selection wheel on two-finger tap gives you always-available tools for quick cursor movement and text selection.Not in a bad way, just in an I-can’t-possibly-cover-all-of-this way. Much, much moreįrom here on out the list of features gets a little insane. In addition to the Markdown preview, syntax highlighting and editing features, you can also email HTML and Markdown files. You can create your own document templates, which I’m using to quickly create blog posts with TextMate blogging bundle headers. The symbol navigator recognizes Markdown headers for quick navigation of long documents on a small screen. There’s auto-correct and auto-capitalization. Line, word and character counts, Markdown preview and Dropbox integration start the list. You also have complete control over document properties, including line endings, encoding and language definition. There’s a symbol navigator that recognizes, I think, every language (over 80) that Textastic supports. You can show invisibles and use soft tabs (spaces) when you want to. The primary focus is on coding, as is evident in the core feature set: code completion, TextMate snippet capabilities, syntax highlighting and auto-indentation make it a pleasure to use, even for quick edits. It’s also a pretty darn good tool for Markdown writing. However, Textastic holds my fascination with some amazing capabilities and I’ve used it quite frequently to make web-related changes to existing code. Even with an external keyboard hooked up, it just doesn’t provide the environment I need for any kind of coding task. I’ll be the first to admit that I rarely (never) do any serious coding on my iPad. Textastic (US $9.99) is a code editor for iPad. I’ll try to write up a few more of my favorites before another year passes me by. It’s in the iTextEditors chart, but I think it deserves a special mention. In the meantime, this app has only gotten better. I’m easily distracted by shiny objects, so some things take a while. I’ve been meaning to write about Textastic for almost a year now. ![]()
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