What's new in Textastic 5.0?

11 years ago in iPad • updated 11 years ago • 1

New:

new user interface designed to match iOS 7
added syntax definitions for Arduino, Batch files, Clojure, Fountain, and Go
UI themes: blue, gray, and black
dark keyboard support
new external keyboard shortcuts:
- Cmd-N: create new file/folder
- Cmd-F: toggle find/replace
- Cmd-W: close current file
- Alt-Cmd-P: toggle preview
- Alt-Cmd-I: toggle file properties popover
- Alt-Cmd-T: toggle symbol list popover
- Alt-Cmd-Up Arrow: upload current file
- Alt-Cmd-Down Arrow: download current file
- Cmd-I: toggle italics (works in Markdown and HTML files)
- Cmd-B: toggle boldface (works in Markdown and HTML files)
- Cmd-U: toggle underline (works in HTML files)
redesigned theme selection:
- There’s now a preview image on the left side of each theme. This is generated on demand using the current font settings and also works with custom themes.
- Changed sort order: light themes are now displayed before dark themes.
added an option to hide the column/line information
Textastic now clears the url cache when the application starts. This allows you to clear outdated server responses when using the remote preview feature by restarting the app.

Fixed:

updated TextExpander SDK - you can now refresh snippets from the settings screen
updated Dropbox SDK
fixed a regular expression search issue when searching for escaped strings like “\n”
fixed crashes that could happen when a hardware keyboard is used
fixed VoiceOver issues
fixed line ending issues when sending text files as an email attachment
many, many other minor bug fixes

Version 5.0

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Here are some screenshots of the new version of Textastic for iPad: