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Markdown Preview

brouilles 7 years ago updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 7 years ago 1

A Markdown Preview like VS Code.

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Under review

Markdown preview and export

teddyalf 9 years ago updated by Peter Anderson 9 years ago 4

Hello,

Is there a way to preview and then export as html/pdf a mk file?

+5

Splitting view vertically

Niklas Modin 12 years ago updated 2 weeks ago 2
It would be great to be able to split the text view vertically. For instance working on a .h and .c file at the same time and being able to see both files at the same time without the need to start two instances. Also very useful when comparing files.
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Large file support

Steve Forza 12 years ago 0
The ability to open large files (files larger than the amount of available RAM) would be a very useful feature. Currently, Textastic seems to load the entire file into memory. This is fine until you want to view a 10 GB text file on Mac with 4 GB of RAM.

Large file support can be implemented using file memory-mapping, where only a portion of the file being viewed is loaded into memory:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file

Why would anyone want to view such large files? Anyone working with server log files. Run-away logs, or logs from high-volume servers can easily reach multiple gigabytes in size.

The only text editor that I know of that is able to open files larger than the available amount of memory is EditPad Pro, a Windows only editor. You can open a 10 GB text file in EditPad Pro, and it appears instantly in the editor, because only the part of the file being viewed is loaded. I miss EditPad Pro on the Mac, but I don't want to install a 20 GB Windows virtual machine just to open large files quickly on my Mac.

If Textastic supported large files, it would be a real differentiator from all the other text editors out there, and I think it would be especially useful on iOS, where the amount of available memory is relatively small. I hope that large file support will be considered for a future version of Textastic. If not, that's okay. Very few text editors have it anyway.  (-:
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Under review

Per syntax themeing

Sam Barlow 13 years ago updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago 0

It would be great if we could have theme's selected on a per syntax basis. I really like having a different theme for different types of work, eg markdown vs php programming.

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Select whole tag

John_H 12 years ago 0

 IE, when you double-click "<table>" then right-click, you can choose "select tag" which will highlight all text between <table> ... and ... </table>.  And same idea, but "collapse tag" option.

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Save As

Greg Griffin 13 years ago updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago 3

Why no simple Save As dialog?  Let me save my files exactly where I want to put them.

+5
Under review

Clean Up/Reformat Code and Syntax Validation

Isaiah Turner 12 years ago updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 12 years ago 0
Basically the Coda PHP & Web Toolkit but for Textastic. 
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How to hide/disable new tab UI feature

Gary 13 years ago updated by Brian P 3 weeks ago 4 1 duplicate

Hi, how do I hide/disable the new tab feature if I don't want it? I usually manage several single document windows side by side and aim for maximum vertical space, having a single tab UI chrome eating space at the top of a document is rather distracting. Thanks --Gary

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Answered

Native SASS / SCSS Support

Matthew Van Andel 13 years ago updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 13 years ago 1

SASS / SCSS are a mission-critical part of all my agency's projects, and many, many others. Currently, we use PHPStorm as our main web development IDE (which has native SCSS support) and Sublime as our "quick editor" (requires a plugin for SCSS support).

Aside from the usual web technologies (PHP, JS, CSS, HTML, etc) one thing we would really, really need Textastic to support is SCSS. Currently, Textastic for iOS doesn't have this support (which is a tremendous shame), but will you be including support the OSX version?


As far as I know, no other "basic editors" have native, built-in, out-of-the-box SCSS support. Include this, and I'm sold.

Answer

SASS / SCSS syntax highlighting will be in v1.1.