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Bug 64655 - [50cat] Show line numbers/toolbar should be in options menu too
Summary: [50cat] Show line numbers/toolbar should be in options menu too
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Options (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Milutin Kristofic
URL:
Keywords:
: 71840 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 65959
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Reported: 2005-09-19 13:23 UTC by host
Modified: 2016-07-07 07:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description host 2005-09-19 13:23:41 UTC
The option to show line numbers and/or the toolbar in the editor should also be
available in the "General" tab of the "Editor" subpoint of hte new "Options"
window and not only from the drop down menu in the editor window.
Comment 1 host 2005-09-23 08:55:02 UTC
Raised from enhancement to defect since I have seen on the NetCAT list that
there are other people having trouble with that too.
Comment 2 Jan Jancura 2005-09-26 15:52:54 UTC
Not a bug. Too late for nb50.
Comment 3 Jan Jancura 2005-10-04 12:45:05 UTC
and what about menu - View - Show Editor Toolbar?
Comment 4 host 2005-10-04 12:53:31 UTC
True that! ...but the editor subpanel of the options menu is the intuitive place
where many people (like me) would look for it first, since it is there too in
other IDEs (like e.g. Eclipse). Keep the essential options in one place and not
spread all over the IDE.
Comment 5 Jan Jancura 2005-10-04 13:04:47 UTC
I am not against. Original version of New Options Dialog contained Line Numbers
there.
But I am not sure if its not too late now. I have many P2...
Comment 6 host 2005-10-04 13:07:50 UTC
Oh, I see! Well, then work on the real issues first and then on this one here if
there still is some time left? ...deal? :-)
Comment 7 Vitezslav Stejskal 2006-12-05 10:45:13 UTC
*** Issue 71840 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 _ wadechandler 2008-05-22 16:14:56 UTC
This has now gotten worse in 6.1. There is no View|*Line Numbers* any where I can see. I had to go into options then go
the old way in advanced options. I looked for ever then gave up and went the way I knew would work. This would be bad
for users who are new say from 5.0 up who aren't familiar with the advanced options and the way we used to turn on line
numbers. Some may go months thinking the IDE doesn't have such a common feature. Care if I add this to the options
window Editor tab? Maybe I can just add a new label and separator under "Camel Case Behavior" which will look something
like:

View---------------------------------------------------
_ Line Numbers

If this will be OK I'll assign it to me. With Hg versus CVS I'm not sure how the commit access works etc, but I have
commit access to a few modules (did with CVS anyways) plus I'm the owner of platformx, so I've been in the NB code often.
Comment 9 Jiri Prox 2008-05-23 08:22:02 UTC
The line numbers can be toggled when you right click on the gray bar where annotations/ line numbers are shown.
Comment 10 _ wadechandler 2008-05-23 11:33:09 UTC
I don't think that is very intuitive though. I think folks will still look to options first. Does anyone object to a
patch doing what I propose?
Comment 11 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-06-02 10:03:18 UTC
There __is__ 'Show Line Numbers' tickbox in the 'View' main menu in my trunk build. Is this what you were looking for, Wade?
Comment 12 _ wadechandler 2008-06-02 13:41:56 UTC
Yes. I wanted to make sure it was some where and visible and intuitive for users. If it is in the trunk build then
hopefully that means it is back. In 6.1 'release' it is not. So, what is the official word on how it is supposed to
work? I assume there was some user interface team idea to remove it previously, or maybe there wasn't; I wouldn't know.
Is is to remain in View? Is it planned to be removed again? Anyways, what I'm really trying to make sure happens is that
it remains in some intuitive place where users are going to naturally look when they want line numbers.
Comment 13 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-06-06 11:58:46 UTC
> In 6.1 'release' it is not.

Yes, it is. At least in mine it is. Anyway, AFAIK it was designed to be in View menu and nobody is going to remove it.
Comment 14 _ wadechandler 2008-06-06 13:44:07 UTC
Weird. On 3 different systems. 2 XP Pro and 1 openSuSE 10.3, all installations do not have it in the View menu. Maybe I
need to ask around and see if anyone else using 6.1 release has it or not. It may be some module I have installed on all
of them which is causing this on my installations.
Comment 15 _ wadechandler 2008-06-06 14:09:58 UTC
I have figured it out. iReport is hiding Show Line Numbers. I need to contact Giulio and let him know that his module is
causing this bug. I'll create a new bug for that.
Comment 16 Vitezslav Stejskal 2008-06-07 13:00:18 UTC
I see, thanks for tracking it down Wade.
Comment 17 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:26:50 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