This idea isn’t originally mine but it’s proved to be very useful; I am borrowing (and adjusting) it from another app called Tex Touch which I’m using for compiling LaTeX codes:

- one-finger swipe to the right: moves the cursor one character to the right;
- two-finger swipe to the right: moves the cursor to the beginning of next word;
- three-finger swipe to the right: moves the cursor to the end of next word;

* plus a similar behavior for left swipes correspoding to one character to the left, to the beginning of previous word and to the end of previous word, respectively.

It saves a lot of hassle using the magnifier, I think (in the other app I mentioned, I rarely find myself in need of using the magnifier).

I use Dropbox and copy pictures from my iPad to my FTP-Server with FTPonTheGo. I love Textastic, but I can't see the picture in my Dropbox, only the name from the picture. IHave a lot of pictures on my Dropbox and I must see the picture to identify it. Can I do this with Textastic too? Then I can delete FTPonTheGo. :-) thanks

Since multiple types of line endings are supported depending on the initial file's extension, it is critical to be able to change them later if you either rename a file or change its syntax definition dynamically. For example any CR terminated file won't render as Markdown, even if you rename it. I also recommend an option a file creation time to set the line endings as well, but it's not as important as being able to change them.

Since we can't use this excellent editor on our Macs, what do you recommend? 

So I can read tiny fonts on my new iPad.

I have a lot of problems with the syntax highlighting in Java files.

Specifically, all of the files I've tried in this archive has had problems. http://www.crofter.org/games/jbox2d_demos/slick_port_jbox2d_src.jar

Textastic is an obviously popular editor for iPad, how many people use it? Can you give an estimate of the number of Textastic users?

Setting it manually to HTML is a weak workaround, so an automatic highlighting rule related to cshtml extensions would be appreciated.

When four-finger-swiping among apps, it often occurs that when I return to Textastic it begins endlessly repeating the move-cursor-left action on the navigation click wheel. If I tap that button, it stops.

Occurs on iPad 2 with iOS 5.0 running Textastic 3.1