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This is a useful feature of the editor which almost nobody knows about. A couple changes would make its usefulness apparent: - Default it to on - Make sure the color difference with the background is *very* subtle so it doesn't intrude on reading code. - Possibly calculate the color based on the editor background color (if dark, HSV brightness + 10, if brightness > 90, HSV brightness - 10)
Set target milestone to TBD
Raising priority to P1 re the recent discussion on nbui. We should at least try turning it on by default in dev builds. It will fit nicely with the other editor enhancements.
Any chance of doing this for 3.6? It's a trivial change to implement.
I personally agree. What UI guys think - Gabo? Not sure whether we can make this into 3.6 because for the default rule that you've mentioned we will likely have to make an additional setting - something like "Use default computation for caret line highlight" or we need to reuse some concrete color value as a marker for the default computation and have a special property editor. This is probably not good in longterm as we would like to allow alpha values to be used in the color values settings so we will in fact use all four bytes of the color setting.
I think "Highlight Insertion Point Row" in Fonts & Colors is rather enough for current design. However, I'm not sure if "Highlight Caret Row" property is needed. Do you think the user want to turn it on/off so often that Inherit checkbox is not appropriate? Anyway, I agree to turn this feature on by default.
Check out my Editor Themes mini-module on alpha autoupdate for a simple approach to editor customization that is all that 99% of users will ever want... If only we could do that options window redesign...
Hey! This issue has been open for 3 years! Gabo agreed over a year ago that it's the right thing to do. How hard is it to change one boolean default? Sorry to be a pain, but can we do this for 4.1?
Default set to ON in [maintrunk]. Checking in ExtSettingsDefaults.java; /cvs/editor/libsrc/org/netbeans/editor/ext/ExtSettingsDefaults.java,v <-- ExtSettingsDefaults.java new revision: 1.38; previous revision: 1.37 done
*** Issue 56202 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Quick question: If the user has an existing userdir, and they've changed some editor color, will the default be on, or will there be some saved "off" setting (I remember this problem with something else editor setting related)?
The default for Highlight Caret Row should not be affected by other editor settings (e.g. colors).