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It would be nice if the XML editor would highlight the block that I am in when editing xml. The way it would work would be that the editor would see which tag you are in and then find the closing tag and then make a graphic bracket along the left hand side of the editor showing the block you are in. If it cannot find a closing tag, the editor bracket goes to the bottom of the page and shows up as red in color. You should be able to enable or disable this feature through the properties for the XML editor.
Please note that since yesterday this is partially fixed. Pairs matching was integrated to trunk so that one sees where is complementary tag if cursor stands in open/end tag.
I would say that this is a problem of the editing infrastructure. There is an API to provide the "matching pair" in the IDE. The infrastructure can then render the line on the left side of the editor window. Reassigning to editor.
Implemented in http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/92ea268e26f7
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201207120002* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/92ea268e26f7 User: Svata Dedic <sdedic@netbeans.org> Log: #45884, #30234: implemented outline for braces, tooltip for invisible brace 1st line