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| <title>Getting content assistance in structured text editors</title> | |
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| <navtitle>Getting content assistance</navtitle> | |
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| <shortdesc>To get help in adding markup to a file, you can use content assist | |
| in a structured text editor. Content assist helps you insert or finish a tag | |
| or function or finish a line of code in a structured text editor.</shortdesc> | |
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| <keywords><indexterm keyref="tsrcedt005|1|contentassistancestructuredtexteditors" | |
| status="new">content assistance<indexterm>structured text editors</indexterm></indexterm> | |
| <indexterm keyref="tsrcedt005|2|structuredtexteditorscontentassistance" status="changed">structured | |
| text editors<indexterm>content assistance<indexterm>text editors</indexterm></indexterm></indexterm> | |
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| <context>Content assist also enables you to select and insert templates in | |
| structured text editors. The placement of the cursor in the source file provides | |
| the context for the content assist to offer suggestions for completion.</context> | |
| <steps-unordered> | |
| <step><cmd></cmd><info>You can request content assist in either of the following | |
| two ways:</info> | |
| <choices> | |
| <choice>From the <uicontrol>Edit</uicontrol> menu, select <uicontrol>Content | |
| Assist</uicontrol></choice> | |
| <choice>Press Ctrl+Space</choice> | |
| </choices> | |
| <info><p>In addition, you can set a preference that causes content assist | |
| to pop up automatically when certain characters are typed, such as <codeph>.</codeph> in | |
| the case of <tm tmclass="special" tmowner="Sun Microsystems, Inc." tmtype="tm" | |
| trademark="JavaScript">JavaScript</tm> or <codeph><</codeph> in the case | |
| of HTML and XML. To set this preference, select <uicontrol>Preferences</uicontrol> from | |
| the <uicontrol>Window</uicontrol> menu, and then select <uicontrol>Web and | |
| XML Files</uicontrol>, followed by one of the following sequences:<ul> | |
| <li><menucascade><uicontrol>HTML Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>HTML Source</uicontrol> | |
| </menucascade></li> | |
| <li><menucascade><uicontrol>JavaScript Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>JavaScript | |
| Source</uicontrol></menucascade></li> | |
| <li><menucascade><uicontrol>XML Files</uicontrol><uicontrol>XML Source</uicontrol> | |
| </menucascade></li> | |
| </ul>In the <uicontrol>Content assist</uicontrol> group box, select the <uicontrol>Automatically | |
| make suggestions</uicontrol> check box, and supply any additional characters | |
| that should trigger content assist.</p><p>If your cursor is in a position | |
| where content assist is available, a pop-up list of all available choices | |
| is displayed. For each of these choices, a brief description of the code is | |
| provided.</p></info></step> | |
| </steps-unordered> | |
| </taskbody> | |
| <related-links> | |
| <!-- <link href="contentassist" type="showme" format="viewlet"><linktext>Show Me</linktext></link> --> | |
| <linkpool type="concept"> | |
| <link href="csrcedt006.dita"><linktext>Content assist</linktext></link> | |
| <link href="csrcedt004.dita"><linktext>Structured text editors for markup | |
| languages</linktext></link> | |
| </linkpool> | |
| <linkpool type="task"> | |
| <link href="tsrcedt023.dita"><linktext>Making content assist work for JSP | |
| files</linktext></link> | |
| <link href="tsrcedt027.dita"><linktext>Adding and removing markup language | |
| templates - overview</linktext></link> | |
| <link href="tsrcedt000.dita"><linktext>Editing text coded in markup languages | |
| - overview</linktext></link> | |
| </linkpool> | |
| </related-links> | |
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