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When debugging using breakpoints, stepping over/into/out of lines of code, the Local Variables tab can be a tremendous aid. Inside that tab, certain rows can be expanded to provide greater detail to the "this" object or the ancestor object, etc. The very annoying problem that I am noticing in 4.1 is that these expanded rows collapse (shut back) when stepping over/into/out of each line of code in the Java editor (I don't know whether this applies to the other editors). This was not the case in 3.6 (unless the debugger went into a different method). The rows that the user chooses to expand should remain expanded.
Created attachment 23127 [details] The Local Variables tab shows expanded rows prior to stepping over 1 line of code
Created attachment 23128 [details] The Local Variables tab shows the rows are now shut after stepping over 1 line of code within the same method when debugging
I agree that this is very annoying behavior. But this can not be P1 priority, it's at most P2. It's a usability problem. It has a trivial workaround, but it's annoying. This is a duplicate of issue #51794, which is already fixed in 4.2. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 51794 ***
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