I’m using Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo). I have some very long string item definitions/values – e.g. over 1000 characters with a lot of embedded XML segments. The copy function works in the strings.xml tab where the XML characters are replaced by their multi-character equivalents but not the Resources tab. Whenever I select the definition/value text – either by using the cursor or using the shift-arrow keys, I do not activate the ‘copy’ or ‘cut’ commands.
Does anyone have the secret?
At the beginning i use to do everything on the resource tab , BUT then i started to have some problems that when i pasted the info it was not showing there, but it was being pasted on the resource node for some reason, so it make it my XML invalid.So i better started to do it on the XML tab, cause is faster also. So when you need to do something fast and pretty, you better do it on the XML tab, is less buggy.
UPDATE:
If your problem is just that you want the text with the values like ‘'’ decoded. then you can just copy the text from the XML tab and go to this site and entered there and click decode and you will get your decoded version of your text.