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Hello,
I greatly miss the IntelliJ IDEA syntax coloring in both Java and JSP/HTML editors. While you have no control over the former, perhaps you can speak to the latter. 🙂 I have two requests, maybe a solution exists for both but I’m just missing it.
– Block coloring of scriplets. I find it helpful to quickly pick out scriptlet blocks (so as to banish them from my page muahahahaa) by using an alternative background color. I believe Lomboz does this but they do it by highlighting to the end of the line of Java code, not by block-coloring the whole scriptlet like IDEA does. I prefer the block approach.
– JSP taglib syntax coloring – the whole element. You give control over the taglib keyword, but not the whole element. I would find it useful to light the whole thing up so that when I’m wading through a largeish JSP I can spot the bits that I care about more quickly. Fine-grained control over this like you have for the HTML elements would be nifty.
Thank for listening!
-Chris
Chris these are both fantastic suggestions that I frankly am surprised I hadn’t noticed missing before. Thank you for taking the time to report them.
I just wanted to add my voice to this request for enhancement. I would be fine with either the block or Lomboz-style coloring of JSP blocks, but having the ability to color the background in some way would be extremely useful. Thanks for a great product!
@VryceBC wrote:
I just wanted to add my voice to this request for enhancement. I would be fine with either the block or Lomboz-style coloring of JSP blocks, but having the ability to color the background in some way would be extremely useful. Thanks for a great product!
No-no, I would rather prefer the block-style coloring, not the Lomboz style.
This way you would able to see color on empty lines, or also when you have scrolled to right well after the end of the line This way it is easier to keep track of where you are. This is also the way it was in Homesite 4.52.
But actually it would also be advantageous to start pumping the promised webtools stuff out of IBM 🙂 It also contains a JSP editor, and I guess (from the pictures) its capabilities would be way beyond the current editor in MyEclipse, except from maybe JSR-045 debugging, which I would guess not to be so hard to integrate.
rob,
We are definately looking into the IBM donated tools to see what we can glean from it or provide to the community. I believe at this point in time our JSP editor is quite a bit more functional as most of the donates tools are proof of concept.The DB query builder is quite interesting though…
