Our thanks to Textastic for sponsoring MacStories this week.
To learn more about Textastic and what it can do for your iPad and iPhone code editing needs, visit and download a copy today. Using Git on iPad with Textastic and Working Copy Watch on In Working Copy, you can clone an existing repository from GitHub, BitBucket or your own private Git server. With the recently released version 9.8, for example, Textastic got the ability to search the contents of files in a folder and its subfolders for text or regular expressions, so you can stay up to date on major projects and quickly find what you are looking for.Īnd if you ever get stuck, the thorough manual, which describes each part of the app in detail and is illustrated with almost 150 screenshots, will help you. There are a lot of types of boxes to customize it for your needs, as well as handy converters.
Of course, the app is also regularly updated and maintained. Box is designed to be a near transparent drop in replacements for dictionaries that add dot notation access and other powerful feature. The long list of features also includes support for iCloud Drive, the Files app, drag and drop, trackpad and mouse, printing, split view, multi-window and much more. Whether you want to create web pages and check them with the built-in web preview, edit configuration files on your server or perform code crawls, Textastic is the perfect tool for your mobile workflow.Ĭustomizable keyboard shortcuts, comprehensive configuration options, Git repositories support using the Git Client Working Copy, and robust find and replace make this app the most powerful iPad code editor you’ll find.
Since Textastic supports tabs, you can have multiple files and SSH terminals open at the same time, and on the iPad in multiple windows side by side. However, with clients for SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Dropbox and Google Drive, as well as the integrated SSH terminal, Textastic goes far beyond the functionality of a traditional text editor. If your favorite language is not yet included in the comprehensive list, you can add your own syntax definitions and themes that are compatible with Sublime Text and TextMate.
It starts with syntax highlighting support for more than 80 programming and markup languages: Textastic handles highlighting for C, C ++, Swift, Objective-C, Rust, Go, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Markdown, LaTeX, YAML, JSON and many more. The cloned files can be edited directly in. I can’t stress enough how easy Working Copy makes using git. The cloned files can be edited directly in Working Copy. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories. Working Copy allows a user to: Access Git repositories on the go. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories. My writing workflow for this site consists of 2 apps, Working Copy and Textastic. Textastic is the most comprehensive and versatile text and code editor available for iPad and iPhone. My writing workflow for this site consists of 2 apps, Working Copy and Textastic.