Bug 409379

Summary:	[projection] Option to hide "final" modifiers on local fields & parameters
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.michael, daniel_megert, eclipse, markus.kell.r
Version:	4.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:	114906
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Description Tobias Oberlies

2013-05-29 08:28:07 EDT

By default, I want all my local variables and parameters to be final. 

I can configure the save action to add the 'final' keyword where possible (and that's what I did) but the result is source code in which the default case - fields and parameters are final - are emphasised through the 'final' keyword, and exceptions to the default are hard to see.

Therefore, I'd like to have an option to automatically fold/hide the 'final' keyword on local variable and parameter declarations automatically folded, plus some kind of highlighting on declarations that don't have the 'final' keyword.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2013-05-29 08:34:50 EDT

We'd first have to fix bug 114906. See also bug 63808.

Comment 2 Jan Mothes

2017-02-14 19:56:47 EST

Ideas:
I'd like to have the option to simply see a "lock" icon instead of the letters "final", like this one:

Comment 3 Jan Mothes

2017-02-14 20:02:19 EST

Ok, so the other part of my comment got lost because i used a unicode char inside the comment.

I meant this one: https://codepoints.net/U+1F512

And as another alternative an even simpler improvement:

It's already possible to give "return" a different syntax coloring than other keywords. If I could change "final" color to not be the same as other keywords, too, i'd alrady be much happier, because i could give it a much less visible color.