In term of user experience, maybe it's better to display code (when opening file) when the theme is applied?

I just have to say that Textastic is absolutely amazing. By far the best code app for any mobile app hands down.

Thank you so much for creating this.

I just thought about a totally different idea how version controll could be implemented, without any problems with ssh and or licenses.
There will be a Mac and Windows App on your computer, where the version controll you are using is already installed. Then the textastic app is comunicating with this app over WiFi.
Textastic itself would only need to have the following options:
- create a connection to the Mac or PC app.
- have a button to commit and push changes. This would transfer one or all changes files to your computer and finally it will be commited, pushed or whatever from there.
- when opening a file in Textastic that's on your computer, it'll ask the computer to pull changes from a server and then copy the changes files onto your iPad.
This would be very simple without any big problems. Most developers have a 24 hour server anyway, and if you really want to use this feature over 3G either the computer app supports this filesharing through the interrnet or a vpn connection can be created by the user.
All this is resulting a very simple app, without the need to have native ssh support and a terminal etc. to display output. For the users they will only have 3 buttons, push, pull, commit (regardless of what Version Controll they are using) and without any setup on the iPad except for the connection to your computer.

Hello, I like Textastic and have been using it with regular text (no programing language). I really very much want to use the custom syntax feature and have been trying to define a theme for this with Textmate (a program I do not normally use). Without any success. Therefore, for us naive non-code writing people (yes we exist): would it be possible to provide an easy to follow guide building the required files? For instance, just how to achieve highlighting of the word "aword" in Textastic->steps in Textmate (I did made a folder, added a language and defined a keyword and did try to select from that source in the theme editor but it just did not work...), files to export and import into Textastic, and setting this as a default for all texts.

When creating templates sometimes it would be very helpful when the filename in creating process made by a template is availible inside the snippet. The moment looks like the $TM_FILENAME syntax is not visible while creating a file from textastic templates. In my case this is important when using textastic to code c++ where filenames should fit to classnames and headerfiles. Or did i miss how to use right?

I know textastic has an firebug integration, but this is really unusable. Why?
1. You need an active internet connection tomload it
2. You only can load it after the pagenhas loaded, so page errors aren't easy to find again

Why not add a syntax check feature to testastic like a javascript based, customize able parser. Or if this makes to much work, why not output the messages of the webkit engine ( it must accessable ) on an oberlay panel ( activateable )?

HTTPS connection is more safer. I wanna have a option that I can use HTTPS connection.