For some things like Markdown or Textile syntax or some uncommon language constructs (single quote in Lisp, triple quotes in Python), the current syntax highlighter isn't really suitable.

I think I found a solution that will add excellent syntax highlighting with theme support and eventually also support for code completion. It will probably take some time to implement though.

Please add support for the css preprocessor Sass with Compass

Annonymous Pro is a wonderfully clear monospaced font from http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html that I first saw used in iSSH. It is released under the Open Font License, so it should be free to include.

Customer Request received by mail: "I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Elements text editor app. It's a simple text editor app that syncs its contents out to Dropbox. As part of that program there is a scratchpad function that allows for side notes when working on a file. My guess is that its doing something like storing scratch not information in the metadata for the file or something. That's what I'm talking about.

Think of it this way. When you open Textastic you see the list of files that you're working with. When you select a file (in this case let's say it's a python script) the app reads the metadata and constructs a Todo list or side note section for that particular file. What it might contain is something like this:

1.) Need to add a hash bang (#!) for running scripts on Linux.
2.) Need to remember to properly format code for easy reading.
3.) Need to properly comment the code so I can remember what the hell I was thinking when I wrote it.


Does that help? You can take a look at the Elements text editor app to get an idea of what I'm getting at. I don't know if they store it in metadata or not. That's just a guess on my part, but it seems logical."

Let the user scroll in the document window even while the search drop down is visible

Like the one in Diet Coda, where you can navigate within tabs to different files, kind of the recent files thing, but more dynamic and easier to use. (Like a browser thing, but with code!)

Hei! Thanks for a great App! Would be possible to implement ssh options? Specifically, I need to tunnel through a server to get to the machine hosting most of my code. On my laptop, I would use the ProxyCommand to have nc facilitate the tunnel. It would be great if this worked with Textastic as well!

It would be great if the app noted files which have been changed (locally) since download (i.e. linked files only), highlighting them (and their containing folder) in some way, and had a "Upload all changes" button, to recursively upload files from the current folder marked as changed.