Ctrl-/ (in Eclipse), or Ctrl-Shift-T (in NetBeans). But I haven't found such features for XML commenting. I have to always manually add <!-- and --> even when editing those XML files inside Eclipse or NetBeans.Why is it missing in major Java IDEs? Nowadays almost all Java projects have some XML files, like ant build files, deployment descriptors, etc. And both NetBeans and Eclipse have nice XML editing features, including syntax highlighting, element and attribute auto-completion, and element tree view. All these seem to suggest Java IDEs are serious in supporting XML development. One would think commenting/uncommenting is one of the basic requirements. Why can't I select some lines, press
Ctrl-/ or Ctrl-Shift-T to comment out them?Maybe one reason is that XML doesn't allow nested comments. So if my selection already contains XML comments, I can't add an outer comment. But even in this case, the IDE can either issue a waring, or add 2 smaller comments, one before the existing comment and the other after.
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