[TxMt] Re: overwriting opening tag doesn't mirror on the closing tag.

[Eric O'Brien]

On May 2, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Alain Ravet wrote:

> James
>    > Do this:
>    > 1.  control - shift - <
>    > 2.  Type:  div id="whatever"
>    > 3.  Arrow back until you are just after the v in div
>    > 4.  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 => div
>
> I 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