Support for symbolic links

12 years ago • updated 12 years ago • 8

I want to be able to make a symbolic link in textastic to my Dropbox folder.

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Due to sandboxing restrictions in iOS, an app can only access its own files. So this won't work, unless I'm missing something.

12 years ago

I am able to do it with koder, but textastic is a million times better. Can you look into it? I really need the sym link for my dev environment, but I desperately want to go back to textastic.

12 years ago

Can you please explain in more detail what you are trying to do?

You can access your Dropbox using a remote connection as explained in the manual: http://www.textasticapp.com/v3/manual/lessons/How_do_I_access_files_in_my_Dropbox_account.html

12 years ago

Sure.

My iPad is jailbroken and running lighttp. I have a webserver at /var/www

I want to "ln -s /var/www iPadwww" in the textastic /Documents folder. The sym link shows up in ifile but its not displayed in the app. I basically want to be able to edit sites in the app and have the files saved directly to my var/www so i can run my php and sql scripts using my iPads server. Does this help?

12 years ago

You could try to use a hard link instead of a symbol link (don't use the "-s" switch).

That said, I don't support jailbroken devices - I don't even have one.

12 years ago

Yeah i tried that. You can only hardlink a file not a directory. Oh well... If I come up with a solution ill be sure to let you know!

Thanks!

12 years ago

I've just added basic support for symbolic links in Textastic 4.0. I will submit this version to Apple today.

12 years ago

Amazing! You and your app rock! Keep up the good work

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