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Mirco Dotta  
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From: Mirco Dotta <mirco.do...@typesafe.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:16:37 +0200
Local: Thurs, Aug 23 2012 10:16 am
Subject: Re: [scala-ide-user] Improvement Request on Highlighting Implicit Conversions
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On Aug 20, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Miles Sabin wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Mirco Dotta <mirco.do...@typesafe.com> wrote:
>> And you are right to think that ;-)

>> Eclipse > Preferences > Implicits > Only highlight the first line in
>> an implicit conversion

>> (and I'd argue that this should be the default)

> I actually don't much like that, because then the underlining becomes
> fairly disconnected from the semantics that it's supposed to be
> highlighting.

> I think what I'd rather see is the point of application an implicit
> being highlighted in the source text with a caret or something like
> that. Then you could use the caret to provide hovers (ie. hover over
> caret to see expanded source), links (ie. click on caret to link to
> implicit definition) and refactorings (ie. right click on caret for
> menu of refactorings such as expand inline).

Hi Miles,

you have a valid point, but I still feel the current way of highlighting
everything is simply too noisy. So, if I have to pick between the two
currently available options, my vote goes for highlighting only the first
line.

Let's see what the rest of the folks think.

-- Mirco

> Cheers,

> Miles

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