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Bug 192479

Summary:	[70cat] Annotation highlighting options have no effect
Product:	editor	Reporter:	matthies <matthies>
Component:	Hints & Annotations	Assignee:	Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description matthies 2010-11-25 16:42:36 UTC

Some of the settings under Options -> Fonts & Colors -> Annotations don't appear to have any effect, for example for "Fixable Hint" or "Fixable Warning". There also seems to be some overlap with the syntax categories "Warning" and "Error" under "Syntax".

"Syntax" should probably be restricted to highlighting based on syntactic elements of the respective language, and stuff like error/warning highlighting should be placed under "Annotations" or "Highlighting". Otherwise it's not really clear what the delimitation is between syntax categories and highlighting and annotation categories. Yes, syntax category options can be language-dependent, but actually the same is true for annotations and "Highlighting".

For "Highlighting" and "Annotations", it's also not clear which settings "Inherited" inherits from.

Comment 1 Jan Lahoda 2010-11-25 22:22:10 UTC

The implementation details show up a bit too much in this case. Changing the effect of the annotation type will work (in case the specific annotation type is used, which may not always be clear), but is almost surely not what the user wants (the annotations cannot show several separate highlights on one line, so the error underlines in the editor are not really annotations, its simply painted highlighting - the annotations are used only to show the icon in the left gutter). So I propose to try:
-add error/warning to Highlighting
-remove warning from syntax, keep error as it was before (for lexical errors)
-hide the editor hints' annotations from the Annotations tab - they are not usefull anyway (although I am not sure how much difficult will this be)

Objections?

Comment 2 matthies 2010-11-26 00:39:24 UTC

What would be the difference between lexical errors (under "Syntax") and errors under "Highlighting"?
Otherwise your proposal sounds good to me.

Comment 3 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:30:34 UTC

This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss

Comment 4 matthies 2016-07-18 20:47:24 UTC

Still reproducible in current dev build.