Does anyone know what these really annoying boxes surrounding random code are in Eclipse? I've seen them come, go, grab the beginning and end of a word, I have no idea what they are supposed to mean. I'd really like to turn off the "feature" or figure out what they mean at least. Thanks!
What are these weird boxes in Eclipse/Aptana Studio
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If you are working in Windows with Aptana studio 3 you can turn it off this way:
Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations
Inside there you find a box and select HTML Tag Pair Occurrences. Uncheck the box Text as.
However you also loose the good thing you get when you select a tag and it shows the matching tag. That's why I don't uncheck the box. Instead I chose Text as Vertical bar. It is easier to look at. Maybe you will also have to fiddle with Occurrences in the Annotations menu.
I think this is very bad done when they developed Aptana Studio. Who wants those default boxes? But I really do want to have the matching tag selected when I select one of them.
This is for Aptana 3.2.1 on Mac, working with HTML.
To disable the boxes that encompass entire matching html tags:
preferences > general > editors > html tag pair occurrences; then uncheck "text as box."
Then, to disable the boxes around the matching angle brackets themselves:
preferences > aptana studio > editors; then uncheck "colorize matching character pairs.