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You can work with local files, FTP files, Dropbox files (Textastic supports this too), and iDisk files (not that this feature will be useful for much longer).

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() ($5.99) takes a different approach and shows its colors as more than just an FTP based code editor.

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The switching behavior and the need to download first is the most annoying aspect of this app. The app does a decent job of highlighting and has a nice soft wrap so that the user doesn’t need to scroll side to side. There is also this odd flipping behavior that the app does when you shift from local browsing to remote browsing that I could do without.įor me I would much prefer to be able to tap on a file and start editing it immediately without concern for whether the file is in sync or if the file is local or not. From there the app will sync the file back and forth easily with the remote host, but it means keeping a local copy of a bunch of similarly named files in a list to the left - which if that sounds confusion, well, you got the point. With Textastic you have to download the file to your iPad first and then you can edit the file. There is one thing about the core functionality of this app that I don’t like: the way you edit remote files. Not that it needs to be as robust, but I did find with both apps that I was annoyed by a few things that TextMate does that these apps don’t do.

This is where a lot of personal preference is going to come into play, because while the app allows you to use TextExpander and does code highlighting, it is still no where near as robust as TextMate. That’s the really great stuff, but the real question is not what is really great - no - it is always: how well does the app work. ((Though you should be passcode locking your iPad, you do that right?)) This is a great feature, almost a requirement at this point.

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You can set a password (not passcode) so that no other users can gain access to your server if they get a hold of your iPad. This is nice because it allows for quick access to a lot of keys, but it also takes a bit of getting used to since the keys that you want to access may not be where you expect them to be (given that they can be scrolled around).ģ. The odd part of this is that those keys can scroll right and left so that you can get access to even more keys. Quick access to most used keys above the standard keyboard. The ability to highlight/select and entire line of code with one tap in the margin.Ģ. There are three really great features in Textastic:ġ. Of the two apps () ($9.99) offers the most basic iOS UI design and layout. I need an app that will allow me to connect to my server, edit CSS/PHP/HTML files and save/commit the changes to the server. My thinking is that if I can tweak the code here and there on my iPad, I can eventually take a trip with only my iPad and no worries about “what ifs”. ((Yes, when I see something not looking right I *really* like to be able to change it right away.)) Before we can get into the comparisons here is why I want such an app: for making quick CSS tweaks to this site when I am no where near my MacBook Air. However a few brave folks mentioned Koder.Īt first glance Koder caught my eye, but Textastic had such praise that I needed to buy and try them both. The overwhelming majority voted Textastic. Last week I asked on Twitter what everyone was using to edit code from FTP sites on their iPads.

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