[oXygen-user] Feature requests

[Barton Wright]

I vote strongly for suggestion 1. There could also be an optional yes/no checkbox setting in Preferences so that no one is forced to use the feature: 
	Remember last Ctrl=E tag (default=no)

Suggestion 2 might be fairly straightforward to implement for CSS, where the class= attribute is a reasonable default for most CSS elements. It would be harder to implement universally for non-CSS XML formats, in which a given element might have dozens of possible attributes. How would oXygen know which attribute you mean to use? 

It might be more useful for oXygen's Ctrl-E to accept any tag appended with a dot as an attribute name for the selected element. Thus, to take a DocBook example, if I select phrase in the Ctrl-E dialog and then type an extra .condition (the dialog now reads phrase.condition), oXygen could know to translate this as <phrase condition="">selected text</phrase>. I still have to back up and fill in the condition name, but it's a timesaver even so. A pair of options in Preferences for CSS files could be: 
	For Ctrl-E, use .name to mean class="name" 
	For Ctrl-E, use .name to mean name="" (default if enabled with the above preference)

-----Original Message-----
From:  [mailto:] On Behalf Of Francois Jordaan
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:41 PM
To: 
Subject: [oXygen-user] Feature requests

Hi,

I'm a very satisfied oXygen user (primarily working in XHTML and CSS), 
but I'd be happier still if it had the following simple enhancements:

(I'm using oXygen 9.1 build 2007122116 on OS X Tiger)

1. Remember last Ctrl-E (wrap tags) value -- currently always defaults 
to 'a'

2. Improve Ctrl-E (wrap tags) to allow .class and #id attribute 
specification (e.g. I could Ctrl-E span.active and get <span 
class="active"></span>

3. Major annoyance (and arguably a bug): Don't clear clipboard when 
copying nothing (hitting Ctrl-C or X with nothing selected.)

4. Need shortcuts to make it easier to select attribute/value pairs and 
single tags (so that you don't have to drag-select around <tag> or 
attribute="value") Triple-click is already taken, so maybe Ctrl-click or 
something.

5. Cursor movement up/down: always remember x position from line to 
line, even after pasting.

This is a little harder to explain. Basically, I'd like oXygen to behave 
like Textpad. Imagine you have a number of lines and you want to paste 
"<li>" in front of each. If I position the cursor in the right place for 
the first line, paste, then press down, I expect to be in the right 
place for the next line. But in oXygen, I'll be 4 characters to the 
right (from the end of the <li>)

Bug fixes:

6. The "Delete Tag" keyboard shortcut on Mac (Cmd-Opt-X) doesn't work

7. The CSS validator doesn't recognise unitless line-height

I'd appreciate it if you could consider these for a minor upgrade! (And 
anyone else reading this -- if you agree or disagree please say so.)

francois

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