Modernize "Format and Indent" support for preview, remembering .bak setting

[chrispitude]

Now that our writers are becoming more comfortable with XML, they are starting to manually modify files (such as .ditamap files or .xml DITA-OT project files).

As a best practice, we use Format and Indent to keep manually modified files clean and consistent:

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We are finding that the following enhancements would be useful:

• Provide a Preview feature (similar to refactoring/find-replace), to evaluate how widespread the changes will be, and to help writers learn where their manual modifications are being corrected.
• Remember the .bak checkbox setting better across sessions (currently it reenables itself in each new Oxygen session).
• Make the "Affected files" dialog upon completion more useful by showing "Nmodified of Ntotal" (or eliminate it to be consistent with refactoring/search-replace if Preview is implemented).

This is not urgent, but it would be nice to have.

[IrinaNadolu]

Hello Chris,

Thank you for bringing the issues to our notice, we added internal issues for them and we'll update this thread when the problems are fixed.

Best regards,
Irina

[IrinaNadolu]

Hello Chris,
I am sending also the ids of the registered issues:
EXM-51656- Preview in Format and Indent Files
EXM-51658 - remembering the .bak checkbox across sessions
EXM-51659 - making the Affected files dialog more useful
Best regards,
Irina