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Bug 37672

Summary:	[plan item] Improve text editor presentation
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	david_williams, eclipse, for.work.things, jean-michel_lemieux
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2003-05-15 10:51:34 EDT

Improve text editor presentation. The text editor should support an optional 
marginal change bar that can show how the current document differs from 
another of its states, such as a local history state or a repository version. 
Also, text editors should support for emphasizing a text region by changing 
its background color. [Platform Text, JDT UI] [Theme: User Experience]

Comment 1 Jean-Michel Lemieux

2003-06-19 11:16:58 EDT

Is anybody working on this?

The Team/CVS team would like to stop using compare editors to show differences
because a user is tricked into thinking that they can really edit the files.
There is no code-completion, doens't update when the local resource is changed,
and all the other fancy editor support.

Change bars are fine but will the user be able to see the incoming changes too?

Comment 2 Tom Hofmann

2003-06-19 11:28:05 EDT

duplicate (kind of) of bug 33456

Please join the discussion there.

The change bar as it is at the moment could be augmented to be able to show 
some sort of incoming changes. However, I don't think we can get all the 
functionality of the compare editor / synch view into just a marginal bar 
without compromising functionality.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2004-12-20 13:02:45 EST

This has been shipped with 3.0.