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  2. QTCREATORBUG-7914

Provide an overview rule next to the scrollbar of editors

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      Being spoiled from using Eclipse over the last years there's a feature that I miss a lot in QtCreator: the overview ruler.

      To get an idea of what it is, please check this short blog and the two screenshots:
      http://dandar3.blogspot.de/2011/03/how-to-change-marked-occurrences-colour.html
      http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RyhrdnlxJ-4/TXj1pkr7xJI/AAAAAAAAI2M/I_HmH4Ift5Y/s1600-h/eclipse_mark_occurrences%5B6%5D.png

      As you can see, the overview rule provides a scrollbar like summary of certain marks in the open editor. You don't need to implement all of Eclipse's different marks, but heres a list of the bare minimum I'd like to have:

      • for each mark it should be possible to configure a color as well as how that color should be applied to the occurance.
      • how the color should be applyable: Highlighted, Boxed, and Underlined
      • Most important types of marks:
        • "occurances" of a variable in the file
        • "read occurances" of a variable in the file
        • "write occurances" of a variable in the file
      • clicking a mark in the overview rule should jump to the occurance in the editor

      You would do many coders a huge favor with a feature like that!

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