60437 - Color coding for tags in composer for HTML source view. HTML source view -> Text view

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58730

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I assume compositor means composer?

In Source View version of composer, the text should have colors based on the tag 
you are typing. For an example of this, use <a 
href="http://www.globalscape.com/">CuteHTML by GlobalScape</a> - It is free. The 
HTML source editting view should have colors like this. Also, in HTML source 
editing form, you should still be able to use the HTML element buttons. It would 
just insert the tags instead of the images. 

If HTML edit layout has colors, then there should also be a plain text layout 
that is just text like the current HTML source layout is. You could use this 
plain text layout for making any text file.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reassigning to editor.

Brian, compositor and composer (editor) are very different things.  Please read
the component descriptions at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

assigning to cmanske for review

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

This will be possible when we can support multiple editors on the same document
and thus can use the full "Text Editor" capability that Composer has for the
source window. The source window will then be able to have its own CSS to control
the look of tags, etc.
We should have just one bug on the issue "improved HTML Source editing" needed.

Comment 4

[Manoj]

isn't this a duplicate of bug 58730?

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Hmmm, I can't tell. I don't really know what syntax highlighting is.

Comment 6

[Sebastian Späth]

*** Bug 97277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Peter Lairo]

looks like a dupe to me - I already CC'd myself on bug 58730. 

It seems like Composer, although one of the four main components of Mozilla,
unfortunately doesn't receive much priority.

Comment 8

[David Illsley]

The first parth of this RFE (Colour coding for tags = Syntax Highlighting) is a
DUPE of bug 58730.

However I can't see anything for the second part: "Also, in HTML source editing
form, you should still be able to use the HTML element buttons. It would just
insert the tags instead of the images."

Comment 9

[Syd Logan]

spam composer change

Comment 10

[Kathleen :Brade]

dup of 58730 and bug #41308


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58730 ***

Comment 11

[James Baxter]

Verified Duplicate