I want to use a command in Textastic to start a shell Programm to let compile whatever.

It would be helpful to have a dock menu item to open a new window on the current desktop.

Despite iSH files are avaiable in the Files app we can not select those files from the Testastic app. I can use internal vi editor no iSH app, and even upgrade it for supporting languages, however I think that it would be very usefull edit those files in the testastic app.

or is this already possible?

Best Regards

Detlef

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. 

Hello! I would like to know if Textastic for Mac will be recompiled for macs with M1 silicon processor. Thanks a lot :-)

I dont see any reason for this. Why is 666 on a file not enough?

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.