United StatesTextastic 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, JavaScript, 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, JavaScript, 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 Please note: You can use Textastic for iPad and iPhone to sync files between the Mac and iOS versions of Textastic using iCloud.
Edit=>Find Randomly Disabled
Works for the most part like a text editor. Aggravating bug is the Edit=>Find menu is disabled much of the time. Have to close and restart the app to get these enabled. The Find functionality for coding is mandatory, so this flaw is a major one. Also logging a negative star review of Apple app management for disabling a perfectly functioning Atom app on my computer merely because it's support/dev team had sunsetted the app. This was a reason to sunset my son's Macbook and get a new Linux laptop so he could use Atom. Atom being blocked by led to me buying this less functional and more costly Textastic app.
United StatesNo warning when files are auto saved
Not using anymore because there is not option to warn you before saving a file, in case it was a mistake.
United StatesProof-of-concept
This app lacks features present in the iOS app. Some, like "Preview" are sorely missed because they're handy. Not being able to right-click and rename, copy, or do anything with a file in the sidebar navigation is criminal for a paid code editor.
United StatesNowhere near what the iOS version is
I want to like this app. I want to use it. I use the iOS version happily because it does everything I could ask for and more. But this macOS version is kind of weak. It could have a few better themes. At least one good one. The code hightlighting doesn't differentiate between things enough... barely at all really. The app is quirky when you don't have a project or document open in the editor, as if it doesn't really know what to do and just wants to be closed. It's kind of ugly. Sorry. But it is. It should take some cues form Brackets, Atom, and Coda. I know they're all gone, but they were pretty. But the worst thing, that the dev believes is the norm (and maybe it is with these editors in the App Store; I don't know), but it saves automatically. I work on a lot of live sites and cannot have that happening. Saving halfway through something I'm building, halfway through a PHP function breaks everything. At least give us the option to turn that off.
United StatesNo longer usable.
Is it a macOS Monterey thing? An M1 thing? I can no longer edit scripts and programs. Every time I save with Textasic, a mess of extended attribues get applied to my file, including "com.apple.quarantine", which then prevents the script from running.
United StatesDisappointing compared to iOS Version
It's not that it's *bad*, exactly, but I'm disappointed that the Mac version doesn't support: Show Invisible characters. Only tabs? Automatic theme change to match system theme. I'd like the theme to change to dark at sunset, like the rest of my system and apps. A way to reload a text that I darn well *know* I edited with a different app on a different system. Seriously, the iOS version is more capable than Mac? Not cool, folks.
United StatesPretty nice
Only issues are the lines on the editor look a little out of plac on the Mac. The lines on the side don't use tones of color like this review box does, it doesn't have a harsh outline. And why... why... is the tab view open, when there is only one tab, and no way to make more? Just make it without tabs until more things are opened. That last one kind of odd... out of place again on macOS. Otherwise, I think it's a pretty solid app and good value,.
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