Searching Within a File

Tap the Search button (“loupe” icon) to open the find and replace screen.

Tap Find or Replace to switch between find and replace modes.

After entering text to search for in the find text field, Textastic will immediately display a list of search results highlighted in yellow and will also highlighted the text in the code editor.

Tap a search result to scroll to and highlight the place where the search term was found.

Search Settings

Tap the Settings button (“gear” icon) to change search settings:

Whole Words

If you enable this setting, the search will only find whole words. For example, a search for “word” will find “word” but not “wording” or “password”.

Case Sensitive

By default, search is case-insensitive. Enable this setting to make search case sensitive and only find instances with matching case.

Diacritic Sensitive

By default, search ignores diacritic marks: for example, ‘ö’ is equal to ‘o’ and ‘é’ is equal to ‘e’. Enable this setting to only find letters with matching diacritic marks.

Note: this setting has no effect when using regular expression search. Regular expression search is always diacritic sensitive.

Regular Expression

Enable regular expression search. Textastic uses the ICU regular expression syntax and supports TextMate’s replacement string syntax including capture references, case foldings and conditional insertions.

Use $n to reference a capture in the replace string, where n is the capture register number. Using $0 means the entire match.

Replace

Tap the Replace button in a search result to replace that search result using the value entered in the replace text field.

Tap the Replace All button to replace all search results.