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Bug 83068

Summary:	Allow positioning beyond line end
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Component:	Navigation	Assignee:	Jan Becicka <jbecicka>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P1
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	105494

Description Petr Jiricka 2006-08-21 08:29:46 UTC

It would be useful to allow moving the editor caret beyond the text on the line.
This is allowed in e.g. UltraEdit.

This could also help in removing undesirable whitespaces at the end of each line
(see e.g. issue 83059) - the editor just would not place any whitespace at the
end of the line, if the whitespace is not followed by a non-whitespace character.

Comment 1 Petr Dvorak 2008-05-06 09:45:00 UTC

I agree! Everyone knows the annoying situation when you need the last line of a file to be (at least) in the middle of
the editor view...

Comment 2 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-05-07 09:35:10 UTC

> I agree! Everyone knows the annoying situation when you need the last line of a file to be (at least)
> in the middle of the editor view...

I'm sorry, but I probably don't understand this comment. How is it related to this issue? There is another RFE (issue
#104576) that talks about keeping the edited line somewhere 'around the middle' of the screen. Is that what you meant?

Comment 3 Petr Dvorak 2008-05-07 09:40:18 UTC

vstejskal: Oh ****, you are right... I know about the other issue and the comment is supposed to be there... Sorry for
spamming...

Comment 4 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-10-29 12:02:06 UTC

*** Issue 151346 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 5 dumchikov 2009-04-25 05:13:12 UTC

this would be a great plus to current net beans 6.5
so many developers will be thankful!
very important feature!