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Hi, I am using Eclipse 3.1M5a + WTP 1.0M3 for J2EE development. I previously used Lomboz v2.x and 3.x, and noticed a significant difference in JSP syntax colouring/highlighting: With the Lomboz plug-in, the whole body content of JSP elements (JSP scriptlets, directives and so on)is displayed against a yellow highlight background, on top of having foreground colouring for individual elements (tags, attributes, etc..). This allows for very quick & easy identification of JSP code inside the page, and I've always found it to be a huge productivity and troubleshooting booster... In comparison, using Eclipse with the Web Tools Platform plugins, you can only assign a background highlight color to tags and attributes, but you can't highlight body tag contents... Now, I understand that most structured text files (HTML/XML//JSP etc...) share common highlighting/templating options in Eclipse/WTP. So, my question is.... Is there any chance that such a commodity can/will be implemented within the Eclipse/WTP Syntax highlighting scheme ? ADDITIONAL NOTE: This request was first filed as #88879 under the JDT.TEXT component, and was subsequently closed because found a duplicate of request #6712 However I believe that while being very close to #6712, my request should still be "cross-posted" to JST.JSP as it specifically applies to JSP syntax colouring. Ultimately though, feel free to close this if it is a duplicate of an already posted request in JST.JSP, or if the feature can only be addressed by the JDT functionality. In any case though, please do consider this enhancement request as I feel it will matter to many people, judjing from the number of duplicate or very similar requests to this one or to #6712 posted for the JDT component. Many Thanks, Laurent
Hello, I think exactly the same. The Lomboz highlighting was much clearer concerning JSP scriptlets. I had lots of problems already with the WTP highlighting. Chily
I think that it's very important this feature and very easy to do (I think).
BG color for "JSP Content" regions is now selectable via the window > preferences > JSP Files > JSP Styles page. The default is currently set to white, so you'll have to change it to see any background highlighting. I've checked a fix in HEAD.
HAPPY :-))))) Can't wait for the next milestone...
*** Bug 82537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> BG color for "JSP Content" regions is now selectable via the > window > preferences > JSP Files > JSP Styles page. > The default is currently set to white, so you'll have to change it to see > any background highlighting. > I've checked a fix in HEAD. Hi Phil, Sorry I'm (very !) late replying... This is quite an improvement indeed, thank you. However, even though I may sound a bit fussy, I'm still not 100% satisfied (sorry !!). I would have thought the whole JSP region would be highlighted. as it stands, the white space and punctuation (e.g. equals signs between attributes) within the JSP region still doesn't get highlighted. You might want to have a look at what the Lomboz plugin does to see what I mean... I suppose this is difficult to achieve though, because it would take a notion of a separate highlight on top of the ones for tag and attributes names and JSP markers. I'm fully aware this is a bit of asking of course !! Regards, Laurent
This bug was moved to 'closed' state, since it is so old and it is assumed really fixed and no longer useful or need further attention. Feel free to re-open, or open a new bug, if this semi-automatic processing was done in error.
