Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I believe one of Saimadhav's original patches used a symbol. I suggested color
highlighting instead, and it seems to work better. In any case, debating such
details is part of an issue.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: - resolved
status: open -
New submission from Mark Roseman:
Right now breakpoints can only be set/cleared by using a context menu on a line
in the editor. I discovered this entirely by reading through the bug database,
as right-click doesn't work on OS X (#24801).
Some other tools use an indicator (e.g. stop sign) in
Mark Roseman added the comment:
oh agree, definitely don't want a symbol on every line. i was already thinking
implementation where you'd probably have an object matching the background for
hit detection! :-)
but yes, visually nothing there but empty space when there isn't a breakpoint,
and
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
#24801 needs to be fixed so we can depend on right clicking. I think SET and
CLEAR should be replace by TOGGLE (#22083). The patch for #17535 already
includes marking breakpoints in the margin. I am opposed to a putting a symbol
on every line. Too noisy and
