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Textastic 3.3 – Simple text, code, and markup editor. January 28, 2017. Textastic is a simple and fast text, code, and markup editor. With support for more than 80. . New syntax highlighter: Textastic 4 has a completely new syntax highlighter that can use Sublime Text 3 syntax definitions (in addition to language grammars from TextMate 1). This means much better support for modern features in almost all supported programming and markup languages. Textastic is the most complete and versatile code editor available for your iPad and iPhone. The app’s versatility starts with its extensive support of syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. Textastic handles highlighting for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, C, C, Swift, Objective-C, Java, LaTeX, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, and dozens more. Popular Alternatives to Textastic for Android. Explore 5 Android apps like Textastic, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community. List updated: 3/20/2019 2:25:00 PM. For $3, Textastic provides wonderful syntax highlighting and code completion for many popular languages. If it doesn't support it and TextMate does, no problem—it can understand TextMate's.

I recently bought Textastic because I felt rather limited by the Pythonista text editor. And I must say that editing long scripts is a lotter easier with this dedicated editor.
Now I can properly find and replace text.
Now I can easily indent/outdent text.
Now I access the code for a certain sumbol directly.
I can see more text at once (at least on an iPad)
Now I can much more easily transfer scripts between the editor and DropBox (which I do often, because I swap between desktop and iPad frequently)
There is also a very convenient cursor pad for navigation in a script.
It is possible to enter all (?) 'strange' characters possible via a top row, although implemented quite differently from Pythonista (still not sure which I like most).

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The only thing that's a bit clumsy for me is that both these programs have their own directory to keep files (thanks to Apple!).
The transfer from Pythonista to Textastic is rather straighforward by Share / Copy to Textastic. The other direction is not directly supported. I now tend to copy/paste the whole text, but that's far from elegant.
So it would be nice if Pythonsita and Textastic could communicate easier.

Futhermore I am really impressed by the way Textastic integrates with DropBox (Just transfer either way by means of Upload or Download). It would be really nice if Pythonista could realize something similar. Now I have to use a script called dropboximport, which is far from ideal.

So to summarize:
It would be nice if there was a better integration of Pythonista and Textastic
Maybe one day Pythonista could incorporate all or some features of Textastic (i.e. the superior editing and DropBox support).

Textastic 4.0.1

Textastic is a powerful and fast text, code, and markup editor.

  • Syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages
  • Supported file types include HTML, jаvascript, CSS, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, Swift, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, shell scripts and many more
  • Compatible with TextMate and Sublime Text 3 syntax definitions and themes
  • Code completion for HTML, CSS, jаvascript, PHP, C, and Objective-C
  • Open files in tabs
  • Open folders in a sidebar
  • Find in files
  • Print files
  • Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
  • Emmet support built-in
  • Auto Save and Versions
  • iCloud document sync
  • Full support for Dark Mode

Textastic 3 3/5

What’s New:

Version 4.0.1
Fixed:

Textastic 3 3/4

  • Sometimes previously closed files were mistakenly reopened on application launch.
  • Textastic could crash if an emoji was used in a Markdown header and the symbol list was generated.

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