Notepad++, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the iOS Notes app all allow you to scroll beyond the end of a file. This means that you can always scroll so far down that the last line of the file is not at the very bottom of the screen.

Both of the following screenshots show a file/note containing the exact same text, scrolled as far down as possible. The line "7. Quail" is the very last line; there are zero empty lines after it in either screenshot. Notice how, in Textastic, you're cramped right up against the bottom of the editor. In the Notes app, however, you can continue scrolling for about another half screen before you can't scroll anymore, which allows you to work in the center of the screen even when writing at the very end of the file.

I think it would be nice if Textastic also had this feature. It doesn't need to be the only option, or the default option. Notepad++, for example, allows you to enable or disable this feature in its settings.

Would you consider adding Typst language support for Textastic? It would be awesome!

https://typst.app

It’s very difficult to see the icons when using the triple-finger tap gesture on iPhone with iOS 26 due to dark icons on dark background. Although paste is fine and some of the other options are currently disabled due to not having text selected, it’s still nearly impossible to see what some of them are, and the undo icon is also very difficult to see.

Opening a file from Files starts a new instance of Textastic. How can I open the file as a new tab of my existing instance instead?

Howdy. I noticed that if I load an external folder that contains a folder called #Textastic, it will show the gear icon like it does in Local Files, but does not actually use the configurations in that folder.

Ideally it would be cool if it loaded those configurations and amends or overrides the Local Files versions, similar to how workspace settings function on VS Code, but a quicker fix might be to fix the icon switching logic to only do that in Local Files.

On iPad OS 26.1, I usually leave my work files opened in textastic in multiple windows and it was about fine until recently where it’s common for the files to be closed / empty after a while.

It would be nice to have more persistence of opened files, I suspect iPad OS being more agressive on memory usage lately could explain that ? 

I work with a lot of opened apps and external screen / stage manager : I try to keep textastic windows and blinkshell in a stage, files are remote (through shellfish) and textastic up to date (10.8.3)

Please provide an option for static (non-blinking) caret (text cursor) behavior in the code editor. Such an option has been generally implemented in iOS since iOS 18 (accessible in accessibility settings). I, and presumably others as well, find a blinking caret to be distracting.