Highlighting for Text corrections

[stef]

I have a suggestion for improvement:

Although i really would like to dump Dreamweaver completely, it is still quicker when used for text corrections compared to code editors...

So how about a button for changing the color highlighting to a mode, where only the text is highlighted, and the code in light gray... for contrast...



This would be very nice, if you quickly want to edit content.

I saw this once in an editor, but don't remember which one.
Now i remember ... Topstyle has a 'Gray Html' Button..

[rajenkins]

Nice idea!

This could be extended to a toolbar of buttons to force a particular highlighting mode (PHP, HTML, Text, etc..) regardless of the file default, which would also get around the problem I have with incorrect highlighting of HTML block echo / 'heredoc' sections in PHP files.

Being able to temporarily switch the whole file to HTML or Text (with tags greyed out) would be great.

[chrisjlocke]

It won't happen, as its been mentioned before and the current code editor doesn't support it, but it would be great to have the same highlighting engine as Context, a text editor.
http://www.context.cx/

This has user-definable highlighters, which can be switched to on the fly. This would accomodate your monocrome style (possibly) and (maybe) rajenkins's wishes. Maybe one day...

[stef]

Although i don't know how the highlighting engine works, i think this could be possible.

I already 'simulated' this behaviour (The screenshot is directly from Rapid PHP):
I configured the 'Html with ASP' colors like in the screenshot... (i don't use ASP anyway). Then i added the extension 'htm' to the ASP 'document types'... and once i click 'apply', the highlighting colors change.

This works, but i would have to add / remove the extension everytime.

So, the highlighting engine is at least capable of changing colors on the fly. Although, maybe the highlighting-engine directly responds to file extension

Don't get me wrong, i don't want to complain, and insist... i am doing small pieces of software from time to time, mainly for friends... so i know what it means when the user is 'begging' for things that simply are'nt possible...

Only the developer knows what can be done...
and i respect that of course

[syrupcore]

I really like this idea. a quick 'content only' highlight. For those of us stuck doing nausea inducing text updates, this would rule!

I too find myself sometimes loading dreamweaver at work to do extensive text edits. Still way faster for me to create new text oriented docs in webuilder but the 'design view' in DW has the basic feature of allowing me to focus on the actual text. I think this highlighting solution is an elegant, presumably simple, middle ground. nice one!

Will