Script Idea - Close Tag, Select Tag, etc.

[scunliffe]

I write a lot of code in some form of SGML (e.g. HTML, XML, XSL, SVG, JSP, PHP) and thus I write a lot of tags.

There are 5 scripts I created for another editor that I would love to be able to use/re-create in Hippo Edit.

• Close Active Tag
• Move to Next Tag
• Move to Previous Tag
• Select to Next Tag
• Select to Previous Tag

1.) Close Active Tag:
This worked by closing the current tag I was editing... e.g. If I wrote:

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<select name="foo">

and my cursor was anywhere after the open angled bracket, pressing a hotkey would run my script... which would search backwards for the open angled bracket, then search forward for whitespace, save the tagname as a variable, search forward for the closing angle bracket, then insert after it...

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</{variableValue}>

Thus closing whatever tag I was editing... regardless if it was a random XML/XSL tag, a JSP tag, or whatever.

2.,3.,4.,5.) Similarly, these would move my cursor (optionally selecting) to tag start/stop positions.

To quote Martha... its a little thing, but a good thing.

If there were some way to accomplish the same kind of thing in HippoEdit, I would love it.

[alex]

Hi Steve,

thanks for suggested help! It should be possible in month or less. At least with dev version

Best regards,
Alex.