[TxMt] Please add a feature similar to BBEdit's "Balance"
Eric Curtis
ecurtis at rgbdesignstudio.com
Fri Feb 4 01:23:33 UTC 2005
> For those of you who have not used it, BBEdit amid all bloat actually
> has a few useful features. One extremely useful feature is the
> "Balance" command. It simple creates a selection that extends from
> the beginning of a markup tag (ie. "<div>"), brace (ie "{"), or
> bracket (ie "[") to the closing markup tag, brace, or bracket. The
> most important part is that it accurately accounts for nesting. This
> feature seems expendable on perfected code, but it is a life saver
> when you have several nested control structures and you have forgotten
> a closing brace. It is also very useful when trying to make sense of
> Microsoft-proofed HTML with several nested divs and no whitespace.
>
This balance idea sounds really helpful. Today I ran across an HTML bug
for an early version of IE that required me to delete all the spaces
between tags and basically run a huge block of images together. This
has been a royal pain to decipher. If there was an easy way to both
highlight it and have it automatically balance out (add spaces and
returns) and then re-compress it I would have done it about 10 times
today.
Eric C
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