No line number display in Eclipse embedded editor

Post by **tbooth** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:30 pm

Hi,

I've just got my hands on oXygen 8.0 and it seems a very slick piece of software, but I have hit the following problem. In the embedded editor in Eclipse the line and character numbers are missing from the status bar at the bottom of the display. I can see the hex representation of the current character but the other boxes are blank. Furthermore the "Go to line" option in the Navigate menu is greyed out and disabled.

Despite the menu option being greyed, the shortcut (Ctrl+L) works as expected, bringing up the dialog box. I can also turn on the "Show line numbers" feature under general preferences and line numbers appear down the side of the editor, but I still can't find out the cursor column position, which is a pain for debugging things like long XPath expressions.

The cursor position is shown as expected within the standalone oXygen editor software, and also when using the default text editor in Eclipse. In the Eclipse standard text editor the "Go to line" option is enabled in the menu.

I'm on Linux (Debian Etch), Sun Java 1.5_10, Eclipse Version: 3.2.1 (Build id: M20060921-0945).

Any ideas? Please let me know if you need more details.

Thanks,

TIM

Post by **sorin_ristache** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:33 pm

Hello,

This was a problem of a previous build of the Eclipse plugin. Please install the latest build (build number 2006112715).

Regards,
Sorin

Post by **tbooth** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:52 pm

Hi Sorin,

Thanks for getting back to me, but as far as I can tell I do have the latest plugin. I installed it on Monday via the Eclipse update mechanism and Eclipse claims it is up-to-date. The machine has never had a previous version installed - I only put Eclipse on it last week.

I have now tried downloading the zip distribution from the website and unpacking it directly into the /usr/local/eclipse directory. The behaviour is unchanged - still no line numbers.

Cheers,

TIM

Post by **sorin_ristache** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:44 am

Hello,

Thank you for reporting it. I see that on Linux it was not fixed. We will fix it in the next version.

Regards,
Sorin

Post by **Mircea** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:50 pm

Hi TIM,

It was not a Linux problem, but a general one. We have identified and fixed it in the current development stream. It will be available in our next minor release.

Best regards,
Mircea.