This is a feature comparison of text editors on iOS. The information was compiled by the web community on an open Google spreadsheet. I cannot vouch for its current accuracy, but will be verifying everything as I’m able. It’s meant to help you find the most useful way to write, code or take notes for your personal needs. Every editor is geared toward a slightly different purpose, with their own strengths and focus.

Earlier this year, I promised myself that I would get more work done using the iPad. The plan was an ambitious one: after three years of writing, researching, and online communication done exclusively using my MacBook (and, perhaps to an extent, my iPhone) switching to the iPad as my main work machine did indeed seem like a daunting task at first. Yet the more I thought about it, the more I realized the long-term benefits of giving the iPad a fair chance as a full-time writing tool would outnumber the perks of using a device I am accustomed to. With a mature ecosystem of apps that sees great new software coming out every week and a Retina display on the horizon, starting to use the iPad as my main computer was an investment.

When you’re migrating WordPress (or any other platform using serialized PHP strings in the database) between domains, you must use a safe search and replace method that preserves the integrity of the serialized string lengths. A simple of a dump file for http://localhost to, for example, http://thenewdomain.com is problematic because the length of the string changes but the indexes for the serialized strings does not. Consequently settings are lost and widgets disappear. Not good.

DetectSyntax is a plugin for Sublime Text 2 that allows you to detect the syntax of files that might not otherwise be detected properly. For example, files with the .rb extension are usually Ruby files, but when they are found in a Rails project, they could be RSpec spec files, Cucumber step files, Ruby on Rails files (controllers, models, etc), or just plain Ruby files. This is actually the problem I was trying to solve when I started working on this plugin.

This plugin underlines URLs in Sublime Text 2, and lets you open them with a keystroke (Cmd+Option+Enter by default).

JsFormat is a javascipt formatting plugin for Sublime Text 2. It uses the commandline/python-module javascript formatter from http://jsbeautifier.org/ to format the selected text, or the entire file if there is no selection. The plugin does not check to make sure the buffer has a ".js" file type, it just javascript formats the selection/file. Thus, use with caution if you are in an html file.

I am not a programmer and I'm testing Sublime text as a general editor, oriented to tagged text for Desktop publishing. I have been attempting to get auto-pair working for typographical quotes (“”‘’«») without sucess, due to my lack of knowledge. Any suggestion? I attempted to modify the windows sublime keymap but... Thank you very much in advance.

The plugin is aimed at making editing Markdown in Sublime Text 2 easier and more powerful. Ideally, I hope we can bring several amazing features of Org-mode of Emacs into Sublime Text 2.

This is a Sublime Text plugin for building markdown into html and open it in browser.

Markdown document viewer.
Allows to visualize formatted markdown documents in browser.
(Works under Mac OS X!)

Assist in finding key conflicts between various plugins. This plugin will report back shortcut keys that are mapped to more than one package. This does not guarantee that the listed plugins are necessarily in conflict, as details, such as context, are ignored. This is simply a tool to help assist what plugins may be conflicting.

Emmet (previously known as Zen Coding) is a web-developer’s toolkit that can greatly improve your HTML & CSS workflow.

Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program for Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Lion and Snow Leopard which has received glowing reviews.

Run this in Terminal:
/Applications/Miro\ Video\ Converter.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg -i /path/to/input/video.mp4 -f webm -vcodec libvpx -acodec libvorbis -ab 160000 -b 1152k /path/to/output/video.webm

Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!
Right click on a textarea, select "It's All Text!" and edit the text in the editor of your choice.
Alternatively, click on the edit buttons added for your convenience. Right click on the edit buttons for even more options, including preferences.

JewelryBox allows you the freedom to manage your rubies, gemsets and gems from a graphical environment. Take advantage of the native OS X application interface with a 100% pure objective-c code base. Out of the box, JewelryBox runs natively on Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Guess encoding of files, show in status bar, convert to UTF-8 from a variete of encodings.

This is a command for Sublime Text 2 that is meant to be bound to the slash ("/") key in order to semi auto close open HTML tags

CSS, PHP and JavaScript completions for Sublime Text 2.