Ability to see color encoding on right side of scrollbar

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Various editors have the ability to show at a glance where finds have occurred 
in the document by creating a colored section to the right of the scrollbar.

This would be helpful when a fast loading file has identified Keywords but they 
have scrolled off the view panel.  A quick look at the right of the scrollbar 
would indicate that there was a find, and approximately where in the document 
it is.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rill...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2013 at 1:41

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Workaround while not having the described feature:
* Activate "Display tab icon on log change" (Requires one uses tabs)
* Use the CTRL+Arrow-Up-Key to scroll to the last important incident

Original comment by sweaty1 on 11 Oct 2013 at 10:11

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Alternative to implementing this feature, would be to implement live filtering, 
by splitting the window in two with a slider. Upper-section showing all lines, 
lower-section showing filtered lines. When selecting a line found by the filter 
in the lower-section, then it will automatically scroll to the location in the 
upper-section.

Besides the normal text-filter, then have an option to filter based on all 
specified keywords.

Original comment by sweaty1 on 11 Oct 2013 at 10:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Both alternatives are interesting.
Wouldn't the 2nd alternative be more work?

On Option 1, I have highlighted ERROR in red, WARNING in orange and INFO in 
GREEN.  How would CTRL+ARROW_UP_KEY know which important incident to jump to?  
How would I know at a glance if there were any ERROR lines to worry about?

Original comment by rill...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2013 at 6:01

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue #41 has a test version attached, where one can specify if keyword-match 
should cause tab-icon to be a warning-icon.

Currently CTRL+ARROW_UP_KEY will jump to any text-highlight. This will probably 
be changed, so one can specify whether keyword-match should cause an alert 
(Replaces display warning icon). Then change CTRL+ARROW_UP_KEY to only jump 
between alerts and bookmarks.

Original comment by sweaty1 on 17 Oct 2013 at 6:59

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Attached an updated BETA version, where the keyword-match-configuration has 
been changed a bit.

Introduced the concept "Alert Highlight", which means that it will set the 
tab-warning-icon, if possible (Replaces 'Display Tab Warning Icon'). And now 
CTRL+ARROW_UP_KEY will only jump between "Alert Highlights" and bookmarks 
(Instead of jumping between all lines with text coloring).

Original comment by sweaty1 on 17 Oct 2013 at 9:53

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• SnakeTail.v1.8.2.5.zip