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Idea: Minimap scrollbar #53

Open Gert-dev opened 1 year ago

Gert-dev commented 1 year ago

GNOME Text Editor supports a minimap sidebar that I think might be very useful here as well if the colour highlights can also be shown in it. This would make it easier to relatively quickly spot where hot zones or hits are in large text files are without scrolling through the document.

phastmike commented 1 year ago

Hi @Gert-dev, when I had the idea for a quick implementation of the desired behavior it was only considering the use of a treeview instead of a simple TextView or even the use of SourceView and so on. Either for less dependencies or the burdon of getting acquainted to the text widgets and given features.

However, with the deprecation of GtkTreeView I need to find an alternative...

Let's see...

Thanks for the feedback, the minimap featureis something that I also considered.

Cheers!