[MonoDevelop] XML Entity Completion Patch

[David A Knight]

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 15:19 -0500, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" wrote:
> David A Knight wrote:
> > 
> > There is a downside with html documents.  If you want to type " for
> > example you will end up with q if q is typed.  A possible solution
> 
> There are a lot more cases besides ", what about & or any
> accentuated letter? What I would like to suggest is to convert this kind

Yes, quot was an example, any named entity suffers from this.  You can
of course type the character " and get the numeric value for " the
same for &.  Accentuated characters should work so long as you don't
need a combining mark to obtain them, so you need to be able to type
with a single keypress with or without a modifier.

> of things by demand, for example giving an option when right clicking on
> them. And, after being converted by the user, it would be interesting to
> still show the original (I mean, the final) character in the tooltip
> when hovering the mouse on it.

I don't like the thought of right clicking, offering the completion using
the auto complete popup seems better to me than this as it would break the
flow of things slightly less, but still doesn't seem right or I would have
done it this way :)




David
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