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    • Michael VincentM
      Michael Vincent @Lycan Thrope
      last edited by

      @Lycan-Thrope said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

      in your code

      It’s not my code - it’s Notepad++ code “notepad-plus-plus/PowerEditor/src/ScintillaComponent/xmlMatchedTagsHighlighter.cpp”

      A picture worth a thousand words, I want to do this:

      3e5aa3d1-220e-4160-b5ac-48d75dc2834e-image.png

      (source: https://github.com/formulahendry/vscode-auto-rename-tag/raw/HEAD/images/usage.gif)

      Seems the pasted picture isn’t animated, but the link to the original is. I’m happy to press some magic key-combo as well before typing to “Select matching HTML/XML tag”.

      Cheers.

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      • Lycan ThropeL
        Lycan Thrope @Michael Vincent
        last edited by Lycan Thrope

        @Michael-Vincent ,
        Thanks for that clarification. So you want to be able to select the word in the opening and closing tag, which will allow you, at the first key press, to insert in front of the tag at both positions to insert the text you type. Correct? That’s interesting and maybe that’s a worthwhile capability that the developers may like to include if it doesn’t already exist in a magic key. :-)

        Edit: Again, since I don’t have the experience, but couldn’t a Python script do that for you? Find the tags, highlight them, put insertion points at the beginning of both of the tags text, and then insert the keypresses. Sounds doable. :-)

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        • rdipardoR
          rdipardo @Michael Vincent
          last edited by

          @Michael-Vincent said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

          I want to do this:

          Your GIF shows a VS Code extension which has been superseded by the rename tag feature (basically F2, “rename all occurrences,” but only affecting the matching tag):

          vscode-v141-tag-rename

          I think the closest you could get with Notepad++ right now would be manual selection with multi-editing enabled, e.g.

          npp-multi-replace

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          • Michael VincentM
            Michael Vincent @rdipardo
            last edited by

            @rdipardo

            Correct. So I take it my feature request:

            If I document this as a feature request Issue on the HTMLTag GitHub, would there be a slight chance of adding that?

            I’d consider a PR myself, but alas, I don’t know Pascal.

            won’t be considered?

            Here is my hacked NppExec script. It does “basically” what I want, but uses folding to find the matching tag, not ideal.

            Note it does not handle if there are multiple of the same tag on the same line:

            ::selectMatchingTag
            NPP_CONSOLE keep
            
            NPP_CONSOLE disable
            NPP_EXEC lang
            NPP_CONSOLE enable
            IF "$(LANGNAME)"=="XML" GOTO START
            IF "$(LANGNAME)"=="HTML" GOTO START
            NPP_MENUCOMMAND Search\Go to Matching Brace
            GOTO END
            
            :START
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETCURRENTPOS
            SET LOCAL STARTPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_INDICATORVALUEAT 27 $(STARTPOS)
            SET LOCAL CURRINDIC = $(MSG_RESULT)
            
            IF "$(CURRINDIC)"!="1" GOTO END
            
            SET LOCAL REVERSE = 0
            SET LOCAL STARTTAGLINE = $(CURRENT_LINE)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETLASTCHILD $(CURRENT_LINE) -1
            SET LOCAL ENDTAGLINE = $(MSG_RESULT)
            IF $(ENDTAGLINE)==$(CURRENT_LINE) THEN
                SET LOCAL REVERSE = 1
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGLINE = $(STARTTAGLINE)
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETFOLDPARENT $(CURRENT_LINE)
                SET LOCAL STARTTAGLINE = $(MSG_RESULT)
            ENDIF
            
            // CURRENT_WORD automatically selects it as well
            SET LOCAL STARTTAG = $(CURRENT_WORD)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONSTART
            SET LOCAL STARTTAGSTARTPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONEND
            SET LOCAL STARTTAGENDPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            
            IF $(REVERSE)==0 THEN
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_POSITIONFROMLINE $(ENDTAGLINE)
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGSTARTPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETLINEENDPOSITION $(ENDTAGLINE)
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGENDPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETSELECTIONSTART $(ENDTAGSTARTPOS)
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETSELECTIONEND $(ENDTAGENDPOS)
            
                SCI_FIND "NPE_SF_WHOLEWORD | NPE_SF_SETSEL | NPE_SF_INSELECTION" </$(STARTTAG)>
                IF $(MSG_RESULT) == -1 THEN
                    GOTO END
                ENDIF
            
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONSTART
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGSTARTPOS ~ $(MSG_RESULT) + 2
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONEND
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGENDPOS ~ $(MSG_RESULT) - 1
            ELSE
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_POSITIONFROMLINE $(STARTTAGLINE)
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGSTARTPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETLINEENDPOSITION $(STARTTAGLINE)
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGENDPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETSELECTIONSTART $(ENDTAGSTARTPOS)
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETSELECTIONEND $(ENDTAGENDPOS)
            
                SCI_FIND "NPE_SF_WHOLEWORD | NPE_SF_SETSEL | NPE_SF_INSELECTION" <$(STARTTAG)
                IF $(MSG_RESULT) == -1 THEN
                    GOTO END
                ENDIF
            
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONSTART
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGSTARTPOS ~ $(MSG_RESULT) + 1
                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETSELECTIONEND
                SET LOCAL ENDTAGENDPOS = $(MSG_RESULT)
            ENDIF
            
            // ECHO $(STARTTAGLINE) ($(STARTTAGSTARTPOS)-$(STARTTAGENDPOS)) -> $(ENDTAGLINE) ($(ENDTAGSTARTPOS)-$(ENDTAGENDPOS))
            
            // SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GOTOPOS $(ENDTAGSTARTPOS)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETSELECTION $(STARTTAGENDPOS) $(STARTTAGSTARTPOS)
            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_ADDSELECTION $(ENDTAGENDPOS) $(ENDTAGSTARTPOS)
            
            :END
            
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            • rdipardoR
              rdipardo @Michael Vincent
              last edited by

              Correct. So I take it my feature request:

              If I document this as a feature request Issue on the HTMLTag GitHub, would there be a slight chance of adding that?

              I’d consider a PR myself, but alas, I don’t know Pascal.

              won’t be considered?

              Come to I think of it, someone asked a while back if HTML Tag could select both matching tags at once. If that were combined with multi-caret editing (with a workaround for the current limitation to mouse-guided selections only), we might have a decent alternative to tag renaming in VS Code . . . 🤔

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              • Michael VincentM
                Michael Vincent @rdipardo
                last edited by

                @rdipardo said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

                a workaround for the current limitation to mouse-guided selections only)

                There is no such limitation programmatically. You just need to use SCI_SETSELECTION and SCI_ADDSELECTION to create the multi-caret editing on the two tags - begin and end. My NppExec script above does exactly that.

                Cheers.

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                • rdipardoR
                  rdipardo @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by

                  @Michael-Vincent said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

                  There is no such limitation programmatically.

                  I see that now, except for one subtle edge case. After sending SCI_ADDSELECTION, if you press the up or down arrow key (not left or right), both carets will remain until you press some other key or cancel the additional selection.

                  I’m not able to trap VK_UP or VK_DOWN becasue those keys don’t count as SC_CHARACTERSOURCE_DIRECT_INPUT, and the plugin’s key listener is deliberately conservative about the type of characterSource it acts on (to prevent auto decoding from being too disruptive).

                  If it becomes a real problem, the About dialog has a clickable link to the bug tracker.

                  • https://github.com/rdipardo/nppHTMLTag/releases/tag/v1.4.1
                  • https://bitbucket.org/rdipardo/htmltag/src/v1.4.1/NEWS.textile
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                  • Michael VincentM
                    Michael Vincent @rdipardo
                    last edited by

                    @rdipardo said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

                    After sending SCI_ADDSELECTION, if you press the up or down arrow key (not left or right), both carets will remain until you press some other key or cancel the additional selection.

                    Yes, I noticed that with my script too. I’m used to it when I have multiple caret editing. I just normally pressed the escape key to go back to single caret.

                    Cheers.

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                    • Michael VincentM
                      Michael Vincent @rdipardo
                      last edited by

                      @rdipardo said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

                      After sending SCI_ADDSELECTION, if you press the up or down arrow key (not left or right), both carets will remain until you press some other key or cancel the additional selection.

                      I’ve tried it out and it behaves exactly how I anticipated. This is great - bravo!

                      Cheers.

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