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Bug 332452

Summary: Text editor has misleading whitespace
Product: [Eclipse Project] e4 Reporter: Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, remy.suen
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-12-13 11:43:52 EST 
See the attached screenshot.
In a basic text editor, there is whitespace on the left and right sides of the text.  These areas are used for showing diffs, folding and element selection.  However, for basic text, these areas may not be used.

If the user wants to multi-select a number of full lines, they may try to make the selection at the left edge of the editor.  Without any visual indication of where this edge is, they may make the gesture inside that left gutter with no result.

One solution would be a thin line at the edge, or would be perhaps to remove these areas entirely if they aren't being used.
Comment 1 Andrew Niefer CLA 2010-12-13 11:44:16 EST 
Created attachment 185078 [details]
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Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2010-12-13 12:58:08 EST 
(In reply to comment #0)
> One solution would be a thin line at the edge, or would be perhaps to remove
> these areas entirely if they aren't being used.

I'd imagine the latter will require changes to the Text framework.
Comment 3 Andrew Niefer CLA 2011-03-18 10:32:51 EDT 
See also bug 332452
Comment 4 Andrew Niefer CLA 2011-03-18 10:40:07 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> See also bug 332452

This comment was intended to go on bug 320901
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2011-04-08 06:20:20 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 320901 ***