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Bug 201689

Summary:	"Toggle Rectangular Selection" invisible w/o editor toolbar
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Actions/Menu/Toolbar	Assignee:	Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jrojcek, kAlvaro
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	UI
Version:	7.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	13857

Description Jesse Glick 2011-09-06 13:55:13 UTC

I normally disable the editor toolbar to save screen space. But then Toggle Rectangular Selection is available only via keyboard shortcut, and there is no visual indication whether it is on or not. Generally all functionality available in toolbars should also be available in other ways.

One improvement would be to add an annotation like "RECT" to the editor status line when enabled.

Another would be to display a (toggle) menu item in the Edit menu.

Comment 1 Miloslav Metelka 2011-10-12 12:43:04 UTC

Jano, should I add "RECT" field to the status line or do some other indication? Thanks.

Comment 2 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:31:50 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

Comment 3 kAlvaro 2016-07-10 14:49:30 UTC

If I'm not wrong, this feature request is not implemented yet in latest development build available today (netbeans-trunk-nightly-201607100002-php-windows-x64.exe).