Project: aptanastudio
Issue APSTUD-2129: "select tag area" feature
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Assigned to Tender discussion #896. See Tender request below. Suggestion is to allow one-click or shortcut access to select the content of a tag pair. Suggest modifying HTML ruble command to select tag pair and content to just select tag content

On october 2008 I made this feature request.

http://support.aptana.com/asap/browse/STU-2511

"Select tag area"

This is a feature that every text editor should have, if it is designed to edit html, xhtml or any syntax that envelopes content in matched tags.
When it is available, it significantly cuts down on the time spent editing complex markup.

Unfortunately, only one tool I know of has this. Quanta plus. An old, buggy and tired editor that I can't live without.

This feature becomes indispensible once you are familair with it.

So, I logged a request back in october 2008, when a much earlier version on aptana is in circulation.
I occaisonally fire up aptana to remind myself of it's potential, and to make sure I haven't overlooked any kiler features that make me stick with it.

But, I'm afraid that I'm dissapointed that this basic feature is still unavailable. And I can't justify using aptana for future projects.

At the moment I am using quanta and a heavily customized emacs environment that allows me to code freely in html, css, js, php, python and my frameworks of choice. I dislike having to use more then one text editor. I'd love to just use aptana. But, without a feature analogous to "select tag area", I'm afraid it's game over.

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Story points: 5