Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?

[Nick Roberts]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > Dan> As a further enhancement it might be a good idea to put in mouse face on
 > Dan> the #if lines, then the users can click on the item and say
 > Dan> "hide/show". This would make it the feature more obvious.
 > 
 > Eclipse puts folding controls into the fringe... seems like a nice
 > idea.  The control is a little arrow that points in different
 > directions depending on whether the code is folded.

Eclipse places many different markers in the fringe: compilation error,
bookmarks, TODO markers, etc.  We could do the same in Emacs but that reminds
me that it's currently not possible to add a tooltip to such markers.  Perhaps
this should be put in TODO.

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