Today I was editing some code and for some reason (spacing out?) I noticed what the gutters were doing. The gutters are the area I have highlighted in the image above in yellow.
I knew about the TODO icon in the left gutter – but then I noticed the small yellow arrow. That is highlighting the line which contains text you searched for! (CTRL-H). Then notice the right gutter – the blue block is my TODO – the lighter blocks below my search text – so I can easily scan the entire document and clicking on the block will take you to that location.
These appear to be on by default. I clicked around a bit in the preferences very briefly and nothing popped out at me (doesn’t mean it’s not there!). If you know where to turn these on/off leave a comment!
While digging I did notice a “Quick Diff” option under the General > Editors > Text Editors section.
I enabled this as well as the “Show differences in overview ruler” option. Under “Use this reference for source” I selected “Pristine SVN Copy”.
Now I see this in my left gutter:
When I hover my mouse over the gutter it pops up the difference between my copy and the last from SVN which is very handy if you have memory problems like I do :)
Now that is awesome. so many times i’ve done a “compare with latest from repository” when I could’ve been using this.
Great find, Jim.
Didn’t know about the quick diff, it is a good find.
As for the search arrows you can enable/disable them by General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Annotations. Choose the Search Results and then you can toggle the vertical ruler for the gutter arrows.
Jim,
I found these recently myself in Flex Builder. In Flex builder, when you select a function or a tag it highlights blue and on the right there is a light blue rectangle everywhere that function or tag appears in your document. I would like to mike my markers darker as they are hard to see. I poked around but didn’t see a setting for that. If you find out more, please post back. Thx!
Here is another trick for you. Say you are working on a long script and you are constantly scrolling between two or more parts of the page.
> Highlight a snippet of code where you are working
> place your curser over the line numbers
> right click >> Add book mark
> Repeat in the other part(s) of the page you are working on.
> Notice the green markers in the gutter.
> Now click on them.
Yeah, that is what I said. ;)