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Would be very nice to have a possibility to do "comment" and "uncomment" in xml editor. Currently this feature is implemented in Java code editor but does not work in xml editor. Taking in account huge xml usage is java projects as configuration tools it would be very wise to keep consistency and fill this gap.
Under NetBeans/Options keymap list there is two actions what does exactly the same, comments and uncomments selected text in xml file. But these actions does not have assigned any shortcut. Just to note, few new ideas: 1. XML editor has needed functionality but does not reveal it in UI in any way. 1.1 These actions are not mapped to any shortcut 1.2 These actions are not shown in editor window toolbar 1.3 These actions are not available from menu 2. I can customize toolbar, but not able to change in any way toolbar in editor window :( . Hard to understand why 3. Actions what performs same functionality but in different context have different names, located under different action categories and have different name. I do understand that implementation differs, but from user point of view they are exactly the same but works in different context. This is like to have a copy operation for numbers, text, date-time format and anything else. That's too weird New search box in toolbar somehow helps to solve that problem. Just by typing comment it does suggest solution, it's really nice feature. But still too much typing, in this case it's easier just do comment manually by typing <!-- -->. 4. Working on this issue I found a lot of inconsistency in UI, customization, naming and flows in logic. Taking in account enormous amount of actions what are inactive as default it just crying for better accessibility to these actions.
This was already implemented.