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Bug 215073

Summary:	Introduce pin watch
Product:	debugger	Reporter:	Egor Ushakov <gorrus>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	Martin Entlicher <mentlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	anebuzelsky, henk89, issues, lsl239, markiewb, pjiricka
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	PLAN
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	228015, 258651, 258764, 262311
Bug Blocks:	258919

Description Egor Ushakov 2012-07-02 13:35:05 UTC

In MSVS this is a very useful feature.
It allows to pin a watch to the source editor.

See small description here (tip 3)
http://www.developerfusion.com/article/84618/new-visual-studio-2010-features/

In general when you pin a watch to the source editor it stays there (pair name|value) and scrolls together with sources. It allows to quickly observe required variable values while debugging.

Comment 1 Leonid Lenyashin 2013-01-18 14:28:31 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYNOIpKbG8

Comment 2 Martin Entlicher 2013-05-05 18:42:09 UTC

Unfortunately, it will not make it into 7.4.

Comment 3 DimaZh 2015-05-20 15:47:57 UTC

Martin,
this feature we would like to see implemented in the upcoming release. Be based on our experience and feedback from users, we think it will be useful and desired feature both from NetBeans and Studio prospective. Is there any chance that it can get into 8.1?

Comment 4 Martin Balin 2016-01-27 07:48:47 UTC

NetBeans should provide the ability to export and import the set of pinnable watches so these could be used by different developers for same project.

Comment 5 Martin Entlicher 2016-04-18 23:19:25 UTC

Pin watches are there, the debugger_pin_watch branch is merged into trunk:
http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/407d58493c75

Comment 6 Quality Engineering 2016-04-20 01:49:05 UTC

Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201604200001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)

Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/d3cea9b5eb71
User: mentlicher@netbeans.org
Log: #215073: Pin watches added into node.js debugger.