Christian Lenz created NETBEANS-1771:
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Summary: Read only characters should be possible inside Editor
Key: NETBEANS-1771
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1771
Project: NetBeans
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: editor - Painting & Printing
Affects Versions: Next
Reporter: Christian Lenz
In some Editors/IDEs like VS Code and the JetBrains family, it is possible that
plugins or core functionalities, can print characters/words/whatever into the
editor like showing the parameter names, when you call a function or debugging
stuff right after the variables/functions or git annotations or complexity
indices and and and. This is possible while adding stuff, which is only printed
out to the editor as read only and not as normal text. Here are some links for
what I mean:
VS Code - Show complexity:
https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/blogs/2017/02/12/codemetrics.png (Between
Line 23/24)
It will not add a new line, it is part of line 24 and read only, sometimes
clickable, depends of what the functionality brings.
VS Code - Git Information:
https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/blogs/2017/02/12/preview_gitlens.gif (More
complex example, but this ticket is not to implement such a feature, it is to
implement the read only stuff to print stuff into the editor, which will not
affect the Lines and is only one string which is not possible to edit.)
IntelliJ Debugging Info:
https://d3nmt5vlzunoa1.cloudfront.net/webstorm/files/2018/01/evaluate-expression.png
(On line 9, 10, 11 and 14, you can see the the debug info is right after the
EOL)
IntelliJ parameter hints:
https://d3nmt5vlzunoa1.cloudfront.net/idea/files/2016/12/idea_2017_1_groovy_parameter_hints.png
(You can see the parameter names as hints)
Everything is optional and can be done separately, but to add those
functionality or other stuff, it is needed to add a global editor feature to
add such hints/informations into the editor. This opens a lot more possibilites
for developers.
Maybe NetBeans still has such support, but I couldn't find it. I only found non
printable characters, which will added like UTF8 code with a specific font.
Cheers
Chris
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