The symbol navigator recognizes Markdown headers for quick navigation of long documents on a small screen. There’s auto-correct and auto-capitalization. Line, word and character counts, Markdown preview and Dropbox integration start the list. You also have complete control over document properties, including line endings, encoding and language definition. There’s a symbol navigator that recognizes, I think, every language (over 80) that Textastic supports. You can show invisibles and use soft tabs (spaces) when you want to. The primary focus is on coding, as is evident in the core feature set: code completion, TextMate snippet capabilities, syntax highlighting and auto-indentation make it a pleasure to use, even for quick edits. It’s also a pretty darn good tool for Markdown writing. However, Textastic holds my fascination with some amazing capabilities and I’ve used it quite frequently to make web-related changes to existing code.
Even with an external keyboard hooked up, it just doesn’t provide the environment I need for any kind of coding task. I’ll be the first to admit that I rarely (never) do any serious coding on my iPad. Textastic (US $9.99) is a code editor for iPad. I’ll try to write up a few more of my favorites before another year passes me by.
It’s in the iTextEditors chart, but I think it deserves a special mention. In the meantime, this app has only gotten better. I’m easily distracted by shiny objects, so some things take a while. I’ve been meaning to write about Textastic for almost a year now.
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