Sep 13
Interesting choice of default behaviour in tag completion in Dreamweaver 8, by default it waits until you start the closing <\ and then does the completion for you. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to change so when you close the first tag it automatically adds the closing tag for you, Preferences > Code Hints > ‘After typing the open tags’ “>”.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:47 am
It wasn’t so much the way you close it that bugged me, more that it stuck the cursor at the end of the closing tag rather than BETWEEN the opening and closing tag.
After all, that’s where you’re going to put code.
Of course, easy to change default behaviour as you point out.
September 13th, 2005 at 8:06 am
It’s actually pretty cool now because it’s putting the cursor in the middle, which is what we really needed.
September 13th, 2005 at 9:43 am
I hated it to start with - but once I got used to it, I found it far more efficient as you put the end tags where you want them to start with - no more cutting and pasting or highlight-dragging /cfoutput’s. I find I don’t write code from top to bottom left to right all that often anyway (which is what the old tag completion method is geared towards). Try it out for a couple of days - it’s worth it!
September 13th, 2005 at 11:28 am
This is the same behavior that you see in jedit, and I absolutly love it. It means no more copy and pasting end tags around. You start the tag ,type up or copy in your paragraph, and then hit </ and the p will complete. After you get used to the way it works it’s hard to go back to anything else.