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Bug 64

Summary: UI: supporting multiline comments (1GDRPQX)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jean-Michel Lemieux <jean-michel_lemieux>
Component: TeamAssignee: James Moody <James_Moody>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 CC: Chris.Dennis, eclipse, gpoul
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:

Description Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2001-10-10 21:35:50 EDT 
The comment field can get very long (e.g. see the Crystal project in sourceforge) and verbose. Users actually
	use this field often. The history view has the following problems when showing the comment:
	1. The comment is truncated (high)
	2. We don't honor the cariage returns so the user's formatting is lost (lower priority). We could possibly
	show the formated comment in a tip or add a context menu option to Browse Comment.
	
	We should also consider the other places that show comments.

NOTES:

Jean-Michel (15/05/2001 9:52:49 AM)
	See also: 1GD1WU0: ITPVCM:ALL - CVS: do we need validation for release comments?
	
JohnA (5/15/2001 7:21:04 PM)
	1. Are you sure we're truncating?  I tried it, and if I expand the column, I get more of a comment.
	2. Can't help -- table cells only get one line.

Kevinm (5/15/01 7:27:08 PM)
	The multi-line is interesting since we only prompt for single line.  Do people often make them multi-line?

Jean-Michel (8/23/01 10:20:40 AM)
	Yes, this is really bad for OS projects because most of their comments are multi-line. You basically 
	cannot see these comments from within Eclipse.
Comment 1 DJ Houghton CLA 2001-10-29 16:51:21 EST 
{formerly titled "VCM UI: displaying comments in history view"}

PRODUCT VERSION:
106 jdk
Comment 2 James Moody CLA 2002-02-07 12:20:16 EST 
Fixed in 2.0.