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Selecting entire lines in Eclipse editors can be a problematic source of off- by-one errors, especially when tabs are represented by spaces. To make line and line range selections easier, the editors should implement a line selection margin similiar to that used by MS Word and WordPad on Windows, and by numerous other text editors. In the typical implementation, a three or more pixel left margin is set aside for line selection. In that margin, the cursor changes to a reverse arrow, indicating that normal selection is not available. A click in the margin selects the entire line to the right of the mouse position; click and drag selects multiple lines.
The requested functionality is available thru the line number display.
Although this functionality is already available through the line number ruler, I completely agree with Bob that the cursor should change to a reverse arrow or give the user a hint by other means.
Tom, what does that mean? The user has to display line numbers to get the desired functionality? Or if not, isn't the line number ruler rather wide for this purpose alone? Seems like the selection "ruler" should be a separate feature.
There are currently no plans to add this, however we plan to add an extension point (hopefully for 3.2) which would allow clients to add vertical rulers to text editors.
Get rid of deprecated state.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
