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Textastic is one of the geekier text editors available on iOS. The app is not a simple Markdown editor like iA Writer or Byword. Textastic has more in common with text editors designed for programmers like BBEdit and Textmate on the Mac. However, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t also appropriate for someone writing prose instead of code. In fact, Textastic plays a specific, but important role in the production of MacStories and Club MacStories articles.
One of the killer features of Textastic is the fact that it has syntax highlighting for over 80 different file types, including many programming languages like Objective-C, Perl, and Python, as well as support for HTML, CSS, and Markdown. If you use TextMate, on a Mac, you can even import any custom syntax definitions you use in that app.