On May 2, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Alain Ravet wrote:
James
Do this:
- control - shift - <
- Type: div id="whatever"
- Arrow back until you are just after the v in div
- control - u
Hope that helps.
It did, thanks (for 1. I pressed control-<, no shift)
Technically, you can't really press the "<" without also pressing the shift key, as "<" is a shifted comma (as it were). At least on US/ English keyboards. So I'm not really sure what keys you were pressing there!
That is: "^-<" is the same as "^-shift-," [On my keyboard, anyway]
, except that I couldn't replicate the double change mirroring that Alan does in the screencast :
div => DIV => divI can only do div => DIV , but that's already a progress.
Alain
Pressing those keys when there is NOT a selection should result in
<p></p>
appearing in the editor, with the first p highlighted. Anything you then type will replace BOTH p's.
Just after the part where Allan's movie show's div => DIV => div you can hear him say
"Then I can tab into the body of this tag..."
That's a critical bit of info. Once you move the insertion point outside of the enclosing angle brackets, the "mirroring magic" will be permanently gone. Although its not visible, the editor (or perhaps the text in question) is in a special state when it's first created by the "^-<" keystroke.
You can change the first tag, and those changes will be mirrored in the second tag but ONLY up to the point where you press <tab> or otherwise move the insertion point OUTSIDE of the angle brackets.
eo