When using Textastic for blog or social media posts in markdown it would be really helpful to be able to get a character count of selected text. 

In the macOS terminal, enabling the "Use Option as Meta key" option allows using a number of shortcuts to edit a command. For example, you can press Option + F to move forward by a word, Option + B to move back by a word, Option + Delete to delete a word and so on. There's no option in Textastic's SSH terminal to use Option as Meta key. instead, for example, pressing Option + F enters ƒ rather than moving forward by a word; ditto for other Option shortcuts.

The ask is for Textastic to offer a setting that will enable using Option as Meta key in the SSH terminal.

I would like to have support for the coloring syntax of this programming language (Interactive data Language) distributed by NV5 geospatial (file *.pro). Is it possible to include it in future version of the APP?

I use it often, takes a lot of taps. 

You should collaborate with a-Shell app to use it as an external debug console.

a-Shell is an amazing environment that simulates the same shell of the Mac(Darwin) on iPad / iPhone and let the user run and debug all interpreted languages (because Apple forbids apps to compile binaries). But for javascript, wasm, Python, etc. a-Shell behaves exactly like a shell, running code in Javascript, wasm, Nodejs, Python, etc and debug it. But a-Shell lacks a visual text editor, and Textastic could be its perfect companion. 

It just need the following features:

- a button to immediately run/debug a python script in a-Shell (a-Shell allows to select and unlock writing/reading permissions on any iCloud Drive or iPad folder), opening a-Shell and running a dynamically generated bash script to run the python code with arguments.

- specify multiple launch properties when debugging/running the code, generating a bash script to open in the source file folder with a-Shell (for example first clean the file with Black, then run it with the parameters specified in the launch properties config). Multiple launch configurations should be stored for each file.

- Using the bash script passed to a-Shell, give the option to save the console error output in a error.log file with a date that can be opened or kept open by Textastic.

- On iPad there should be the amazing option to run a-Shell window and the Textastic window side by side! Coding and instantly see the script running!

Please, consider this!

Maybe add an AI that you can ask Questions about Code, that would make the App more beginner friendly and would make Code more understandable.

Alexander,

I do all my writing using Markdown. This often involves reviewing documents and needing to 'highlight" text.

I know that I can do this by inserting "<mark>selected text</mark> from the Textastic additional menu bar. This, however, is fiddly and time consuming when there is a lot of text to be highlighted.

As an alternative, would it be possible to add a "Highlight" option to the "Format" menu option when text is selected. This would insert "<mark>selected text</mark>" around the selected text.

This option would be a considerable productivity enhancer if it could be done.

Regards,

Peter Anderson

I would like to to display the line in Textastic by a specified line number from another app using URL scheme.

URL scheme, for example:

    textastic://x-callback-url/open?location=fullPath&path=%2Fexample%2Findex.html&line=100

I can open a file using this material as a reference.

https://www.textasticapp.com/v9/manual/integration_other_apps/x-callback-url.html

so i want to attach to my server running tailscale, I have tailscale vpn running on the ipad and on the ubuntu server. i can do this from a terminal app. just by giving the ip address and the user. It comes back on the terminal app to tell me that i need to authenticate using an httplink. With textastic i just get the following error message in the terminal window.

ERROR: Failure requesting shell:

I realise this is quite specific so hoping its something you have hit before with vpn or if there is something else i can try?

It would be nice to have code completion while editing tex files. Thank you.