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Fixed

I cant count how many times I couldnt delete selected text

Ladislav Nevery 13 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago • 10

Using whole screen real estate and thanks to that only few scrolls I select text I wanna move/delete just to find out that there is no way to do it.


Selecting and deleting/moving text is basic operation we use milion times a day.


I found out that only way to do it is by ugly unintuitive hack.


So I need to doubletap to deselect this tediously selected text to show keyboard on half a screen for having cut command finally in selection menu. 


But keyboard (that is absolutely not needed for select and cut) 

will reduce already miniscule sceen to half. that is jus few lines of text being visible now. reducing previously simple and intuitive selection operation to absolute scrolling hell with milion taps needed to reach bottom of text. 

And one bad tap timing will instead of scroll deselect hard obtained selection and you can start again.


deleting/cut text operation is essential for text editor.

When this operation is missing in text selection menu than its bug and serious usability hindrance.


Please fix it. I belive tousands will be eternaly gratefull and a lot of productivity time will not be wasted.


Thank you.

Ladislav Nevery


Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago

The next version of Textastic will allow cut and paste even when the keyboard is not up.

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Write line numbers to file

Olaf Kolle 14 years ago in General • 0
In some cases it would be nice to have the option to save a file with a line numbering included. The line number step should be user selectable. Also it should be selectable how many spaces should follow the line line number or if a tab should follow.Kind regards,Olaf
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Fixed

Error: Transferred a partial file

Aleksander Lanes 11 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 1 year ago • 31

I am getting an error when uploading files when using FTPS.

Errors occured
Error uploading "myfilename": Transferred a partial file

On the server the file is replaced with an empty file (if I enable "keep partial uploads" on the server)

I am running the 5.1.1 version on an iPad with iOS 8.1.1. I had exactly the same issue when running iOS7.

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Textastic 5

Myako Toudai 13 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago • 1

Hi Alexander,


long time without any messages of textastic development. If I'm allowed to ask, is a version 5 in development or planned or is the version 4 the last one. 


Thanks 

Greets Alex

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Which regular expression engine?

Benct Philip Jonsson 13 years ago in General • updated by Benct Philip Jonsson 10 years ago • 3
Thanks for a great app! I have some questions regarding regular expressions, though:

- Which regular expression engine does Textastic use?
- Where can I find the syntax spec?
- What is the right syntax for including captures in the replacement text?
- Can I use case modifiers like \U \L \u in the replacement text?

TIA for the answer which I hope end up in the FAQ/manual! (Is there a FAQ distinct from the manual?
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Under review

Longer tab widths

Ted Chew 11 years ago in General • updated by Ken_P 7 years ago • 2
It seems the tab width currently tops out at 8, but this is insufficient for certain programming languages. Assembly languages in particular can have instructions of more than 7 characters. That means the instruction arguments will no longer line up in a column making the code difficult to read. I use a tab width of 12 in those cases, though ideally, it would be possible to enter any width within reason
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Under review

Document picker error

maurizio manuguerra 11 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 10 years ago • 3
This is driving me crazy.
On my IPad Air, I edit files on a server using the document picker and Transmit (sftp connection). So far so good.
I have a second iPad where the same workflow doesn't work: I select the "Open.." Menu, then Transmit as file provider, the connection is established, I can browse the files on my server but when I want to open one (whatever the extension) I get the message "The plug-in returned an error. Could not connect to server xxx." Please note that the server detail are the same on both iPads as they are synced with Panic sync service.
Beyond the fact that an identical workflow works on the iPad Air (same versions of everything), the crazy part is that:
1. If I use a different file provider, e.g. Working Copy, it works
2. If I use a different text editor, e.g. Koder, it works.
3. If I offer the file to Textastic from Transmit, it works.

Of course I have tried to reboot the iPad, uninstall/install both apps, with no effect.
I also tried the same workflow on the iPhone: it doesn't work as well.

Has anyone any idea of what is going on? I found no info search for this problem on the web.

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Under review

Textastic should know about Makefiles

Luke Vivier 12 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 12 years ago • 0
It'd be nice to have syntax highlighting for Makefile, but more important, if soft tabs are enabled Textastic should disable them if a Makefile is being edited (Makefiles must use tabs for indentation). Sublime Text does this and it's a life saver.
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Under review

Text navigation and selection by dragging finger using one navigation key

Milan 13 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago • 3

In a demo of http://www.becomekodiak.com I have seen a Navigation key on the keyboard row (confessed to be inspired by Textastic). I would guess that it was inspired from http://worqshop.com/ but I haven't seen Workshop in action. I find it quite handy, as it doesn't take much space and can be quicker than arrows.


How it works: you press the button and then drag your finger in a direction - mouse cursor moves. Than you press the button again and mouse cursor moves again, now selecting the text.

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Under review

Why does Textastic remove three bytes from equivalent MS Notepad built text file? (Don't remove byte order mark (BOM) on save if it exists)

Jeff MacKinnon 11 years ago in General • updated by Bachsau 6 years ago • 8
I have a large text file (consisting of HTML and JavaScript) which was created with Windows Notepad using Unicode UTF-8 encoding, and then uploaded to my Web server. Textastic downloads it (via FTP), resulting in a file on my iPad of the exact same size as the original. Textastic reports it correctly as having Unicode (UTF-8) Encoding, Windows (CRLF) Line Endings, and HTML Syntax Definition.

However, once I force Textastic to save the file (by modifying one character, for example), the resulting file is three bytes shorter than the original. Visual inspection of the befoure-and-after files (in Notepad) reveals no differences (same number of lines, with an apparent carriage return / line feed after the last line.

Why? What three bytes are being removed from the file?


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