Turning off Eclipse XML editor's comment autocomplete

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wimxa@yahoo.com - 08 Oct 2007 21:50 GMT

When I open the XML file and open the comment (by typing 

This is fine until you really want to comment something already
existing. For example:
<tag1>
<tag2>
</tag2>
</tag1>

will be turned into:
tag1>
<tag2>
</tag2>
</tag1>

by typing !-- after the first >. Any way to disable this? Ctrl+space
is nice, but I don't like this automatic behavior.

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voorth - 10 Oct 2007 10:55 GMT

On Oct 8, 10:50 pm, wi...@yahoo.com wrote:

> When I open the XML file and open the comment (by typing 
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> by typing !-- after the first >. Any way to disable this? Ctrl+space
> is nice, but I don't like this automatic behavior.

In the preferences panel, go to the "Web and XML/XML Files/Templates"
entry.
There is a "comment" template with the value "" that
can be changed to a more friendly form.

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