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Bug 338139

Summary:	[Variables View] highlight other variables that point to the same object as the selection (mark occurrences)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Markus Keller

2011-02-24 14:00:59 EST

N20110221-2000

In the Variables view, highlight other variables that point to the same object as the selected variable.

Scanning and comparing IDs manually is painful. The concrete ID is often not interesting. All I need to know when looking at a static Variables view is
a) whether two objects have the same ID
b) whether I can see other variables that point to the same object as the selected variable

Both these tasks can be solved much more efficiently if the other occurrences of a selected variable would be marked in the view, e.g. with a different background color. This is similar to Mark Occurrences in e.g. the Java editor.