As far as I know there is literally nothing I can do to change this system-provided NSTextFinder UI (see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nstextfinder).

For example, I'm typing this in Safari and its website search UI uses the exact same control size as Textastic.

I would have to implement my own interface from scratch to change that (which I might do in the future to support regular expressions which the system UI cannot do).

Hello,

- Where to disable autosave

Textastic uses the NSDocument architecture and AutoSave in order to support editing files in iCloud Drive from several devices and to support macOS features like Versions.

You can configure it in your Mac's System Preferences -> General to also ask whether to save your changes or revert to the last explicit save when closing a file.

This is the same behavior that is used by native macOS apps like TextEdit and Xcode.

- How to find and replace within multiple files

You can find in multiple files in the sidebar by using the Edit > Find in Files… menu item (Shift-Cmd-F). This does not support replace at the moment.

- How to convert HTML entities

There is no built-in functionality for this. You could use Find and Replace for this.

- How to edit multiple lines at oncek

Textastic doesn't support multiple cursor at the moment.

- How to add 'plugins' ... if any

You can add custom syntax definitions and themes using TextMate bundles and Sublime Text packages

Thanks for the video, I'll look into it. 

I tried to reproduce the problem but what I tried looks correct to me.

Can you please send me a screen recording video that demonstrates the problem?

It looks like MultiMarkdown, which I use for Markdown preview, supports Critic Markup. I could enable this extension in a future update so it would show the changes as highlights in the Markdown preview. 

See https://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-6/syntax/critic.html

This is defined in a .tmPreferences file, typically called "Comments.tmPreferences".

You need to define the TM_COMMENT_START and TM_COMMENT_END shell variables.

Please have a look at https://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/comments.html - this web page also contains an example at the end of the page.

Hello,

currently code completion only works for a pre-defined set of functions and does not include user-defined functions.

If you want to always see the iOS keyboard shortcuts bar, you can enable it in Textastic's settings -> Code Editor -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. This should show the button in the lower right when an external keyboard is connected.

In Textastic 9.7.2, the file transfer progress screen can now only be dismissed using the Cancel button.

In Textastic 9.7.2, files in an iCloud Drive folder added as an external folder should now be automatically downloaded.

This used to work before, but it looks like there was a change in iOS 14.x that broke this.