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Can you please send me the file to support@textasticapp.com? 5 to 8 seconds is indeed not acceptable in any way. I have not seen such delays in my own files.
FTPES is not supported in Textastic 2.1. But, I have implemented it for Textastic 2.2 last week because another user needed this feature too. So, it will be available in the next update.

If you send me account details for a test account on one of your FTPES servers to support@textasticapp.com, I can make sure it works with your configuration.
You mention "sftp sync". Did you try the SFTP functionality in Textastic 2.1? 

A WebDAV client (with https/ssl support) will be available in the next update.
Well, unfortunately I don't know because I can't look at their source code. The debugger says that it's trying to find a string at character position "-5" when it crashes.

So, if the snippet is included in a larger snippet, the character position -5 actually exists. But this is just speculation on my part.

This seems to be a problem in TextExpander. I tried your snippet in two other popular apps: PlainText and Nebulous Notes. Both apps also crashed.


I'll forward this issue to the TextExpander developers.
Hello,

thanks for reporting this. I just added this snippet to TextExpander and it crashes for me, too.

I will try to find out what the problem is.
Actually, ActionScript files are supported. Files with the extension .as are automatically detected as ActionScript files. You can also manually choose the ActionScript syntax definition in the File Information popover.
Thanks, I'll consider adding this to Textastic.
Ah, ok, I see. I will update the manual entry.
1) I plan to support custom colors when the new syntax highlighter is finished for Textastic 3.0. You can also discuss and vote for this feature at http://feedback.textasticapp.com/feedback/7475-customizable-colors-for-syntax-highlighting/

2) Can you post a screenshot that shows the block cursor how you want to see it? Maybe with the syntax colouring scheme you prefer?

3) Version control support is discussed at http://feedback.textasticapp.com/feedback/7628-support-for-version-control-systems-svn-git-etc/

Thanks for your feedback,

Alexander