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Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.0 (Build 200711261600) Java: 1.6.0_03; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_03-b02 System: Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86; Cp1250; cs_CZ (nb) 1) Open html file 2) Double click on any paired tag, <html> for example. Now this tag is selected, but pairing color highlight hides selected part of tag, so you don't see, if something from the tag itself is selected, or not. This could cause accidental loss of data.
This is a generic editor problem I think.
*** Issue 125042 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
The problem is that the highlighting layer for braces matching is above the layer for text selection. The layers used to be ordered the other way around, but then the change was requested for Nb6 based on user experience in editing java files. I agree that the current state is very annoying for tag based languages like html, xml, etc. Ideally we would want the selection highlight to allow certain degree of transparency so that it would not completely hide the highlights below it. This however is not so easy to implement and it's unclear when (if at all) we will have it. In the meantime I'll flip the z-order back and see if I can somehow preserve the current state for java.
changeset 631fdeaea385 in main details: http://hg.netbeans.org/main?cmd=changeset;node=631fdeaea385
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