
Textastic breaks symbolic links
I just narrowly avoided messing up our web server by using Textastic to edit its pages.
The issue is when you edit a symbolic link as you save, rather than writing changes back to the link, it deletes the link, creates a new file where the link was and saves to that.
For example, I have
a.html
and lets say I want another page with the same content and dont want the hassle of maintaining both, so I create a link to it using a command like this
ln -s a.html b.html
With other editors I can edit either a.html or b.html and both update. With Textastic when I edit b.html and save, only b.html is changed. The link I created to a is broken leaving a.html with the old content.

Will Textastic for Mac move to Universal/Apple Silicon code?
Hello! I would like to know if Textastic for Mac will be recompiled for macs with M1 silicon processor. Thanks a lot :-)

Textastic demands permission to write on a folder to edit a file
I dont see any reason for this. Why is 666 on a file not enough?

Fix encoding of opened files
Even though I set the default encoding to UTF-8 in textastic's settings, most of my scripts still open with a western encoding, breaking any UTF-8 encoded characters in them If I don't notice it fast enough to reload with UTF-8. This happens even if those scripts have a `# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-"` line or UTF-8 characters in the few view lines.
A correct encoding detection would only switch to western encoding if it encounters errors while trying to parse the file as UTF-8, not the other way around, since every byte is valid in western encodings, while a lot of combinations are invalid in UTF-8.

Crash when double clicking first word in a text file
I am experiencing the same crash whenever I try to double click on the first word in a text file to copy and paste. If I drag to manually select the word it works fine, but as soon as I double click to select the whole word, it crashes. It happens on both my desktop and laptop, and only seems to be the first word in a text file. Hope you are able to fix it - Textastic is a really great app!
Thanks,
Iain

Crash when performing CMD + left arrow and cursor gets to start of line
In a new Textastic window type any text with multiple word, then click Cmd+ left arrow to jump over typed words, when cursor arrives at very first position it crashes.

I love this editor, and I'd like to ask for a tiny feature: CMD-V for pasting text.
CMD-X, CMD-C are there, it's just CMD-V which IMO is missing.

Find and replace across files
Hi, how do I find and replace text across multiple files in Mac? Seems pretty basic. thanks much, Sanjiv
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