I often need to cut very large pieces of code, sometimes hundreds of lines in length. I know Textastic already has some options for selecting text areas... such as using a two-finger tap to use the dial and minimiIng the text size to view more.....

However, selecting huge code chunks is still not easy..

I suggest adding The following option to the dial...

A Start Arrow (pointing right) to begin selection at the current cursor position

..user then scrolls to new location....

User presses End Arrow (pointing left) to end selection....

Is then prompted to copy, cut etc...

here’s a rough mockup...

hello,

I would love to have an option to hide these components as it get in the way and wasting my screen real estate:

- system status bar

- system home bar (ios 13)

- textastic toolbar

Also a shortcut to open the file panel and focus to the search field would be very useful. I don’t think there’s a way to do it currently.

Can you add more dark themes for Onedark or Tomorrow Night or Dracula?

Users who used Atom or VSCode are familiar, and I think it will be easier to transfer.

Thank you for providing a good editor!

I will continue to use it.

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Hi there, I’d love to use the keyboard in other apps in addition to Textastic. Is this currently possible? If not, I’d happily pay for it as a separate app.

Not the most common format out there, but it's well supported by TextMate through a tmbundle (which works in Textastic btw):

https://github.com/lifepillar/Ledger.tmbundle

If this could be built into TextMate (for technical and legal reasons), that sounds like potentially an easy win.

Does the localhost server for the html preview in Safari always use the same port?  This is required by the same origin policy if a website stores data in local storage, indexeddb, cache storage, etc. and wants to retrieve it later.  I noticed that Working Copy uses a different port with each preview, making testing javascript single page apps that utilize data storage impossible and was wondering if Textastic had a way to always use the same port when previewing html/js.

I wanna have snippets like TextMate, it’s possible

Hello

Your iOS editor is amazing and by far the best in iOS.

I was wandering if it would be possible to support a “Distraction Free Mode”, similar to what Sublime has in macOS. I use Textastic for Latex writing in iOS and would be perfect if you could limit the max column size allowed and keep the text in the middle of the screen.

Thank you

Currently I edit HTML on my iPad split view and open the same Dropbox file in textastic and Dropbox and use Dropbox to see a live refresh of what I’m doing. It’s great but not perfect as there is a delay. Would be nice if textastic could do both, as it merely shows a preview in full screen. Thanks!