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Re: [cdt-dev] expand vertical ruler hover icons in the CDT editor by default


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonah Graham" <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 August, 2016 12:19:09 AM
> Subject: [cdt-dev] expand vertical ruler hover icons in the CDT editor by	default
> 
> Hello CDT folk,
> 
> At the CDT monthly call today [1] we discussed the Bug 476797 [2]
> which is a great feature from JDT ported by William Riley of Renesas
> to CDT. The feature is to expand the vertical ruler when there is more
> than one marker on the given line. A screenshot of what it looks like
> (in JDT) is available in the bug [3].
> 
> William did some of the work at the Hackathon at ECNA and has improved
> and refined the solution since then. It is now in good shape and,
> following discussions on the call today, we plan to turn it on by
> default in the CDT editor in CDT 9.1 (aka Neon.1). William is also
> planning to spend some time next month applying his improvements to
> the JDT editor with the hope of changing the JDT default in the
> future.
> 
> If you have any concerns on this plan, I would be grateful if you
> raised them in the bug [2].

Has anyone looked into the possibility of moving this code into lower layer so JDT and CDT pick it from there instead of copying it around? If you have any ideas (even if not full featured but having only small subset shared for now) let's discuss them and try to enhance Platform.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jonah
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/calls/Aug2016
> [2] http://eclip.se/476797
> [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=256421
> 
> ~~~
> Jonah Graham
> Kichwa Coders Ltd.
> www.kichwacoders.com
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