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The line number ruler and Markers ruler should both resize based on the MAX number of digits or markers at a given line.
What are your ideas regarding the marker ruler?
The following icons can appear on top of each other: breakpoint, bookmark, error, warning, maybe some others. It doesn't make sense for an Error to hide a breakpoint, or a breakpoint to hide a bookmark. In this case, the marker ruler should detect that its width needs to be 2 or 3 icons wide. If this case doesn't occur, it could just be wide enough for one Icon. There may be other ways to display all 3 decorations with less width, but I think it is rare to have more than 1 per line.
I personally don't like the idea to have wider vertical ruler just because one line happens to have multiple markers. A lot of screen real estate would be wasted. If you have a lot of markers (errors), then you would probably not care about the other markers anyway. In the case of a error and breakpoint, the breakpoint is irrelevant, since it's invalid anyway as long as the code is not correct. Note that the hover is a textual representation of all the markers on the line.
The new @TODO support essentially adds yet another "priority" level to the list. It might get difficult to define a fixed priority level that will display markers in the correct order. For example, should @TODO's appear in front of compilation errors, since maybe the "undone" item is the cause of the compile error? Maybe a single column can work if you allow either user-specified z-ordering, or use some heuristics to choose the best marker to be "on top".
This bug becomes more importand with the new feature light bulb when you have also a breakpoint on that line. (If you double click to clear the breakpoint then the light bulb comes with a popup ect ect And then i can't see quite right if the breakpoint is still there or not)
I assume this issue is older than the option to expand icons in a hover? In that case I guess only one thing remains to be wished: make that option better visible. Suggestion: as long as it is not enabled add a corresponding action to the context menu that will enable the option (and tell you where you can disable it again ;-)
(In reply to comment #6) > I assume this issue is older than the option to expand icons in a hover? The expand on hover is not the same. If you have warnings and todos in multiple places, it's difficult to tell whether breakpoints exist on those lines. Hovering over each line is no better than suggesting opening the problems/breakpoints view.
i am always searching for the option to change the priority of the things eclipse draws in that ruler I want breakpoints to be always ontop of everything else there (except maybe an error marker) But i cant seem to set this anywhere.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I assume this issue is older than the option to expand icons in a hover? > > The expand on hover is not the same. If you have warnings and todos in > multiple places, it's difficult to tell whether breakpoints exist on those > lines. Hovering over each line is no better than suggesting opening the > problems/breakpoints view. Is that, you are still wishing for an expandable ruler? I personally think these two views suffice: - If I want to find my breakpoints I use the breakpoints view (eagerly hoping for more structure in this view ;-) - If I want to see what's going on on a particular line of code I use the icon hover As said in an earlier comment: expanding the width of the ruler only because one or few lines have multiple markers (to me) feels like undue waste of screen real estate (even in times of bigger screens). I could imaging the following feature would be cool: filtering the ruler to show only particular icons - this would have to use a very convenient gesture, like: mouse-wheel over the ruler. I'd imagine the ruler to be restored (filter removed) as soon as the mouse leaves the rule area. Or, to be able to go back to the editor area and scroll: gestures like: shift-wheel selects filter, keeps the filter until you release shift at what time it snaps back to showing all icons. You could think of the ruler as a cylinder which can be spun using the mouse wheel, each "column" shows only one kind of icons, but only one column is visible at a time. Any one like this idea?
(In reply to comment #8) > i am always searching for the option to change the priority of the things > eclipse draws in that ruler > > I want breakpoints to be always ontop of everything else there (except maybe an > error marker) > > But i cant seem to set this anywhere. > I think that's statically specified by the plugin providing the marker? See EP org.eclipse.ui.editors.markerAnnotationSpecification which has a property presentationLayer (int).
Re comment 8: no this is currently not possible, see bug 80089.
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