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While editing html, javascript or jsp file sometime I miss a little functionality that would save me a lot of time : convert selected char to html entities. For exemple : In a html editor, you type the following : <input type="button" value=">" title="next"/> It's valid and has no problem but the correct form should be : <input type="button" value=">" title="next"/> And with this kind of trick we can escape char encoding problem easier, for example : "José" becomes "José" and the work fine in any charset...
All the HTML entities are defined at the following URL : http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
I fully agree with this request (and needed several times myself). I'll mark as 'help wanted' as seems a good candidate for others to contribute to? I think several things need to be thought through, though ... I could envision a number of related prefrences ... convert as typed, convert selected text, convert on save ... and the conversion should be able to "round trip" fairly smartly. There might also merit to making sure the document is valid before making the change, since it would do a bad job if some end bracket missing somewhere ... well, it might ... might misinterpret something wrong and convert the wrong characters.
I am also looking for such functionality: - edit an HTML document (e.g. Eclipse documentation), and trying to add a snippet for an Eclipse extension point (which is pure XML). - If I copy it into a <pre>...</pre> section, I have to quote manually all tag "<>&" characters. So, it would be great to have an action like "Source (or Refactor) -> Quote selected Text" - Additionally it would be nice, if the current selected text could be quoted including color information, so colored syntax will be directly usable in HTML I am currently doing same stuff with VIM. I thought it would be nice in 21th century to be able to do this without fallback to VI times ;-)
Since there's been no volunteers after all this time, let's see if there's anything we can do for WTP 3.0.
I'm going to add the helpwanted & bugday keywords back in in case anyone wants to work on it. Even if there are no takers, I'd still like to get this fixed in 3.0. Also, Jochen, your comments about a new "quote selected text" action sounds like it needs a separate enhancement request. Please feel free to open one if you have not done so already.
reassigning to inbox
