Local files on the left, remote files on the right. Pressing a globe-shaped icon from the main display flips the text edit pane over to reveal a dual-pane file browser. Textastic is clearly in the latter group. Others, like iaWriter, clearly want you to feel like you are editing on the iPad, and only backing up to Dropbox when you want. Some, like PlainText, try to make it feel like you are actually editing the file on the remote server, primarily by automatically saving the file to the cloud. I’m noticing kind of a conceptual split among the cloud/dropbox text editors. Textastic is $9.99, which isn’t a lot in the absolute sense, but is more than some of the other tools that I’d be comparing it to. Now here’s the part where I give enough details to let you know whether to spend your money. As a writing/blogging tool, it’s close, but I think it’s a point releases or two away from being fully baked – it’s about 80% baked at the moment.
Textastic vim bindings code#
I think it would work fine to do some basic editing on a code file, though it’s obviously not TextMate or Vim. It’s got some features that I really like and an overall feeling of being polished. It’s called Textastic, and I’m typing on it right now, though I’ll probably edit this in MarsEdit later. Naturally, because sometimes the universe loves irony, a new version of editor meeting these features was released a mere week after I turned in the final draft. There wasn’t any editor that met all those requirements, so I bought a bunch of other editors and obsessively reviewed them on this very site. It quickly became clear that I was the only person in the world looking for this exact set of features. TextExpander integration to make it easier to type the markup tags. Support for editing HTML/XML files, syntax coloring, extra keys, something like that.
So, back in the summer when I started my bizarre quest to edit my book on the iPad, I had three requirements.īe able to read the book files from Dropbox
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