Hi. I really like what you’ve done in Search showing matches in their full context, complete with yellow highlights. In fact, it’s the best design I think I’ve ever seen in terms of clarity and ease of use. The only thing missing is a feature I first encountered in Google Sheets whereby a small preview of a cell’s pending value appears whenever the formula you’re editing reaches a calculable state: a live preview of the result.

In keeping with your current design, the way I’d like to see this is by doubling the cells in the results view such that each match snapshot is followed by a snapshot showing what that window of text will look like after the replacement has been made. This would completely eliminate the frustrating cycle of Attempt Regex > Discover Mistake > Undo > Attempt Modified Regex that happens when I forget whether Textastic uses /1 or $1 for capture groups. It happens when I get my capture groups mixed up. And it happens during replacements when I’ve made a capitalization error.

Honestly, what you have is already so close to perfect, it would be a shame not to reach out and actually reach perfection. 🌞

Is it possible to get support for DefinitelyTyped typescript files like the files you’d normally get with npm install -D @type/google-app-script that allow for custom code completion in typescript files?

There are numerous apps that can access the iOS system fonts. These include—for example—RSS readers to customize the display of articles to your own taste, or graphic apps to use the fonts for layouts. If we can already add our own themes, it would be really desirable if the font selection could be customized as well. 

Textastic only offers a very small selection of fonts. There are so many other fantastic fonts for programming. I can easily install these with iOS and use them in all apps that access the system fonts of iOS. I think it should be no problem to make this possible for Textastic as well. This would be very desirable and a long-cherished wish of mine (as a typographer). 

We sit in front of the screens for hours to code. So the working environment should be more customizable.

🙏

Is it possible to make undo/redo (primarily with keyboard, e.g. cmd+z) take action continuously, ergo if the cmd+z is held for a short while, it starts automatically stepping back in undo history, and vica versa?

At the moment if there’s a bigger chunk of work done that needs to be undone, cmd+z has to be pressed every time to step back one by one.

Thanks in advance!

On IPad with folio keyboard the cursor randomly jumps across the whole document when pressing the up/down arrow keys. Haven’t managed to find any pattern in this behaviour, seems to be happening every now and then - but more often when selecting some text and using shift+arrow keys to jump between lines.

Let me know if I could provide anything more to help with this!

I was following the manual on adding .tmbundle files for custom syntax highlighting, however, one bundle I tried to install isn’t loading into the application. Are there any methods or steps for users like me to debug this? I tried enabling the debug logs, but it looks like only the successful loading of bundles are logged when performing the “Reload Customizations” action.

The bundle in question is: https://github.com/jjeising/javascript-jsx.tmbundle

Notes: 

- I did find this bundle through online search- but based on my understanding, this bundle should be supported by Textastic.
- I am also assuming that there are currently no issues with this bundle. If there is, then I would expect to be able to see an error in Textastic’s debug logs.

- I have configured other syntax bundles in the application on the same device (at the same time as well), so there is no inaccuracy with my #Textastic directory.

Something to show Markdown headers to allow easy navigation to parts of the document.

Option + Command + Up arrow is not working but option + command + down arrow is working fine

Dear Alexander,

I have found an issue with the Keyboard Shortcuts.

When I try to configure "Show Nth Tab" and press [CMD]+[1&], Textastic shows [CMD]+[&], which is good and works fine. Idem for [CMD]+[3"], showing [CMD]+["], which is good and works fine too.

But [CMD]+[2é] does nothing, making it impossible to access Tab number 2 with this natural shortcut.

For information, [CTRL]+[2é], [ALT]+[2é] and [SHIFT]+[2é] are doing nothing too.

Not sure whether this is an iOS or Textastic issue though.

I am using multiple AZERTY (French) external keyboards, and I can reproduce this issue with all those I have tried, so the keyboard itself does not seem to be the cause.

May I ask you to look into this?

Thanks a lot for all your valuable feedbacks.

Kind regards,

Maurice Zoliker

Dear Alexander,

I am using Textastic with a mouse since iOS now allows it. Not sure if this is the intended behavior but when I left clic and drag on the text, I would have expected the screen to move (like with my finger). Right now what happens is the text is selected, which feels a bit counter intuitive, at least to me.

Would it be possible to change this behavior, or is it locked by iOS? At least, if possible, an option would be really nice :-).

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Kind regards,

Maurice