[Lazarus] SourceEditor: strange "gap" on right hand side

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 28.02.2012 16:53, schrieb Bart:
>> On 2/28/12, Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Yay!!! The overview gutter is finally here by default :D
>>>
>>> Make some changes in the file, save it, make more changes and place some
>>> breakpoints.
>>
>> I can see little green squared dots when I change a line, but they do
>> not appear at/near the line I changed, and they are static (they do
>> not scroll with the synedit), same for breakpoints (little red line)
>> and bookmarks (blue line).
>> Also they are not "click-able", so they do not provide some jumping 
>> mechanism.
>>
>> Also, on the left hand side gutter, didn't I already have a visible
>> clue for saved/unsaved edits, breakpoints etc.?
> 
> It's an overview for the complete file, this is why it does not move. 
> There is a small gray area (a different gray then the rest) that shows 
> your current scroll view.
> 
> To quote Martin's mail:
>> It does show (for the entire file):
>> - position of breakpoints
>> - position of bookmarks
>> - changes (unsaved/saved) per line
>> - implementation/interface/initialization (shaded grey)
>> - current visible page (shaded grey)
> 
>>> You'll then see what this baby is useful for
>>
>> Must be me, but I don't see it right now.
>> How Am I supposed to use this information in the overviewgutter?
> 
> As said it presents a complete overview of the current file to you. You 
> see where you changed something (yellow and green like on the left) and 
> where you put breakpoints. In the future there might be icons to 
> indicate compilation failures, warnings, hints, etc.

Nice one, I did something similar way back for bookmarks in an embedded 
script editor.

Could it be merged with the scrollbar to avoid visual duplication?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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