Comment 0 for bug 746040

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Roel Kramer (roel-koelkast) wrote : Syntax errors and warnings next to row numbers

One of the features I use most in my current bloated IDE (aptana), is the feature which displays error icons next to the linenumbers. It also uses underlines to warn for unused imports.

Currently there is only one error displayed at a time, in the toolbar on the bottom. This does not give a very good overview of what's wrong, or what can be improved in the code.

It would be nice to have an error overview like this, it can be implemented like the bookmarks are. Maybe with a keyboard shortcut to toggle it. When the mouse is hovered over the icon, or when F2 is used to move to errors, a tooltip which contains the message, should be displayed next to the icon. The suggested feature would improve the usability of the editor. A minor thing might be that the toolbar warnings are duplicate, so they should be disabled or toggled with the same which toggles the errors.

Another nice syntax feature would be to underline unused imports. Aptana does that and when I open a file I immediately see which imports are unused (and which code is created in an editor which didn't mention unused imports).

I included a screenshot of aptana's editor to point out what i mean