[Riyad Kalla]

I’ve been working on really large JSP pages recently and have come across quite a few times where I wish ME would put a indicator in the left gutter showing me the tag scope I’m in. Because what happens is I’ll want to copy-paste some tags or comment out some tags, and I’ll find the first tag I want, but its matching tag is about 60 lines down, and it gets confusing to wade through all the other open/close pairs to find my match. If ME was able to indicate to me the tag scope I was in, I could just mouse down to the last line and know.

That would be handy, but definately not a priority.

Example:

    <td>
--  <logic:equals name="user" property="age" value="16"> |
|     <bean:write name="user" property="height">
|     <bean:write name="user" property="weight">
|     <bean:write name="user" property="name">
|     <logic:equals name="user" property="hairColor" value="red">
|       <strong>Red Hair</strong>
|     <logic:equals>
--  </logic:equals>
    </td>

So in the awesome above example, my cursor is on the 2nd line (logic:equals) and the highlight is showing the scope of that tag.

Best,
Riyad

[Jeremy Kuhnash]

Precisely … this feature alone makes a JSP editor worth having.

As a registered user, I too would love to see this ‘IDEA-like’ feature implemented .. but the additional popup to show the matching bracket isn’t as necessary, for me anyway.

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