[rogue_dev]

<%
String hello = "   hello   ";
%>
The greeting is <%= hello.trim() %>
<!-- var is <%= hello.trim() %> -->

In the above JSP code fragment, when you type in hello.t<CTRL-SPACE> you should get code assist for both examples. However, code assist does not work inside the <!– –> block.

Ecplise 3.1, MyEcplise 4.0GA

[Riyad Kalla]

Thank you for the report.

[Riyad Kalla]

After further investigation it seems all editors (including the Java editor) behave in this way, this isn’t a bug, seems to be desired behavior.

[rogue_dev]

Hmm, there is a bit of a difference between code comments (never executed) and HTML comments.

HTML comments make it to the rendered page, and in fact can used to document certain behaviours which should not be displayed to the user.

For instance I use it to show the execution time for a servlet. I start a timer when entering the servlet, and the JSP extracts the elapsed time. This is displayed in a comment at the very end of the page. I also use HTML comments for development time annotations such as Row skipped, etc.

Ok, could I add this as an enhancement request?

[Riyad Kalla]

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