I bought the Textastic app for IPad years ago. Actually, I don't use it because of the fact, that I have to do at least 3 touches to get to the output of the console.log:

1. I'm in a JS file and want to console.log something

2. I need to change the focus of the editor to a HTML file embedding the JS file to do so

3. I have to touch the glasses icon on the right top to get to a browser view

4. I have to touch the console icon on the left top to finally see the output.

Not only that this is so tedious, but also unintuitive since you always jump from one area to another one of the app during the whole process. It feels like I have to get me through the whole process just like I never did it before, because my eyes always need to scan, where exactly I have to land my finger touches on the screen..just as if I'm doing it the first time..again and again.

I really like the overall concept of the app, but developing / debugging JS projects is due to this issue a bit pita for me. Why is this so complicated to get the console at hands in Textastic? 

Please, consider to make the developing / debugging process more convenient for JS devs by move the console view to a place in the editor just one click away. This would make Textastic the best code editor choice on iOS..at least for me :)

I started using Textastic and I am loving it.

I have a problem though:

When I open a file from my pcloud server, in my computer and in my iPad (using Textastic in iPad), the text will be the same at both sides.

When I modify the text in iPad side, the computer editor updates the file's text without any problem.

When I modify the text on computer side, when the Textastic try to update the text on iPad, it closes it (closes the text).

Is there any configuration to enable such automatic update?

Thanks

I’m using:

• Textastic 9.9
• iPad Pro 12.9 (4th generation)
• iPadOS 16.2
• Apple bluetooth keyboard

The option-delete key combinatian deletes the word to the left of the cursor, and each additional press deletes an additional word, as expected. However, the cursor position does not visibly update. This behaviour is new since I updated Textastic from the previous version (9.8?) to 9.9 this week.

It’s as if the real cursor becomes invisible when option-delete is first pressed, leaving behind a ghost cursor. The invisible real cursor moves correctly, while the ghost cursor does not move. The real cursor becomes visible in its correct position, and the ghost cursor disappears, as soon as I type something or use an arrow key to move the cursor.

The arrow keys don’t always cause the real cursor to reappear. For example, if the cursor is at the end of the file when I press option-delete, then pressing the right-arrow key will have no effect, probably because in that case the right-arrow key would not have moved the cursor anyway.

One issue I’ve always experienced in Textastic is that the standard Preview option doesn’t scale the browser window’s height properly.

Here is an example:

In Preview:

(You can see the bottom is cut off and requires scrolling)

Using Preview in Safari, this issue does not appear.

(You can see the bottom height is properly scaled)

Hey there,

When i m trying to Start the App it stays in a weird black screen. When going to the List of all open Applications, it does show the Content After a while, but when i Go back it will be black.

The model I am using is an iPad Pro 2021 11“

Hope i can geht help here. I habe also anders pictures.

Can I use the "Open in..." function to directly open a file for editing from inside another application? In this instance I am interested in browsing my nextcloud instance on my phone/ipad and opening .md .txt .html .whatever files directly in a text editor instead of having to first switch apps and then drill down from inside the editor.

Will this work?

I want to use Google drive as a local source but it’s unavailable. Is there a way round this ?

I use Textastic to draft Batari Basic files.  Batari Basic is a coding language written as a high level language that converts to assembly language and finally converts to binary to be run on an Atari 2600.  Is there a way to customize Textastic with a word list of Batari Basic commands?  I've spend about 2 weeks trying to understand the customization instructions for Textastic with Sublime Text 3, .tmbundle packages, and .tmTheme files, but i just don't get it.  Is there a better step-by-step tutorial you know of that can help me?

Thank you!