You need to do a single tap on the editor once, so that it has focus. Only then can you use the external keyboard cursor keys to modify the selection or use the delete key to delete the contents.

If you are using the default settings, the row of additional keys comes up when it has focus.

It's a common mistake to include more than just the host name or ip address, so that's why I mentioned it. It's easy to add a trailing slash when you are copying it from an URL for example, so that happens quite often. No offense meant.

Regarding WebDAV: you can upload files using WebDAV to your webserver. In the preview screen of Textastic you can switch to "Remote" and enter a remote URL that is served by your webserver. Textastic itself does not run PHP code locally.

Can you send me a screenshot of your FTP connection settings? Make sure that you only put the IP address in the "Host" field - do no't include "ftp://" or a trailing slash.

You can find detailed information in the manual at http://www.textasticapp.com/v5/manual/lessons/How_do_I_connect_to_an_FTP__FTPS_or_SFTP_server.html

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it.

How exactly do you try to bring up the keyboard? Please make sure that you are doing just a single tap, not a double-tap and not a long press gesture.

Update 2015-04-17: The latest versions of Textastic have the Fountain syntax definition built-in. The default themes are intended for programming languages, so you can still install and use the themes from http://www.textasticapp.com/support/FountainThemes.zip to make full use of it.

A customer also requested support for custom colors for synopses, actions and dialogue. I modified his theme and added styles for it. You can download this theme here: http://www.textasticapp.com/support/Highland.tmTheme.zip

Here's a screenshot of this theme:




You can use the theme editor at https://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com to modify colors (the editor requires the desktop Chrome browser).

It's great to hear that it works now!