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Textastic

Textastic is a text editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich support for syntax highlighting, FTP... Created by Alexander Blach

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Mac
iPhone
iPad

Textastic is a text editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich support for syntax highlighting, FTP, SFTP and Dropbox.

FEATURES

• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages:
HTML, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website)
• Compatible with TextMate syntax definitions and themes
• Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP functions
• FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP (SSH connection), WebDAV and Dropbox clients
• iCloud
• WebDAV server
• Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
• Full external keyboard support
• Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming
• Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures
• Supports most encodings like UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, CP 1251 or MacRoman
• Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs)
• Customizable font and font sizes
• Undo & Redo
• Find & Replace
• File information like character count and word count
• Send files by email
• Local and remote web preview for html and Markdown files
• Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion... More Info »

Textastic supports several ways to import your files:
• Over USB via iTunes File Sharing
• By using "Open In" in other apps
• Connect to (S)FTP and WebDAV servers, and Dropbox
• Over Wi-Fi with the built-in WebDAV server

Links to official Textastic sites

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Features

Dropbox integration Support for FTP Local Storage Support for SFTP Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

Category

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code-editor css dropbox-integration ftp-support html ide javascript local-storage programming sftp syntax-highlighting text-editor

Textastic was added by akseez in Mar 2011 and the latest update was made in Mar 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2018 There is a history of all activites on Textastic in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Textastic or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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