I would prefer to have access to the underlying syntax highlighting definition files in order to make changes on my own. This works very well in 'Ultraedit' (www.ultraedit.com), a very popular editor in the Windows/Linux world, which allows me to extend the list of languages with my own or new languages or keywords. Changing colours is just a subset of this feature. Thanks for your consideration!

In my case I have some source code files with comments in local language (Russian, win 1251 cp). Need changeable option to set encoding for current open file, and option to set default encoding.

It looks like the default iPad keyboard is used in search and replace. Using the coding kb would make searching for HTML tags MUCH easier!!

It would be wonderful if these could be added as utilities within Textastic. You could use JSHint (instead of JSLint) if you're feeling kind towards new javascript coders.

Would it highlight the syntax of Arduino. Would you consider adding this feature, as Arduino is growing in popularity? Thanks.

Create a UIWebview so that we can preview changes done on website work. I was thinking about making this app and then I saw your text editor.

The dynamic zoom is great, but you can't scroll the screen without it flying all over the place. The ability to lock the screen at a specific zoom level is needed.

I think it would be really helpful when editing (multi)markdown documents to automatically continue bullets. If I'm in a list and hit enter at the end of an item in the list, let Textastic automatically indent to the same level, add the same symbol I'm using for bullets, and put another space. So if I have

I would love an option to show whitespace, just to obsess about my formatting.

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