Multiple gutters (for gutter icons)

[simonzack]

A lot of sublime text packages use the gutter, which causes gutter icon conflicts, for example the gdb package and the git change-tracking package.

A way to resolve this would be to allow multiple gutters so all the information can be displayed, which can be positioned either on the left or right. This would also improve visibility.

This isn't a new idea, lots of other editors/ides do this (e.g. jetbrains products). Would love to see this implemented.

[arvidbjorkstrom]

This would be a great feature, indeed! :+1:

[atomless]

Please address this! Tagging this with "minor" definitely underestimates it's importance.

[FichteFoll]

@atomless, how is this so important for you in particular?

[groug]

I agree with @atomless on the fact that it's more than "minor": I'm using the gutter with SublimeLinter and Modific (git status of my file). With a one-icon gutter, I can't have both info if there's a code issue on a newly-modified line of a revisioned file. It's not a major issue (for me, anyway: Modific seems to have the priority, and SublimeLinter displays the error/warning in the status bar), but it can really be interesting to at least set the display priority of the plugins that draw stuff in the gutter.

[edsadr]

This should be a must have... really cant see linter errors because gitgutter make them hidden ... it sucks

[erwinverdonk]

Yeah, I would like to up-vote this as well. Same problem as edsadr, I can not use both ESLint and GitGutter as the same time or else I do not see my ESLint warnings/errors.

[titoBouzout]

"minor" as I interpret it is not "just minor", isn't "major" nor "critical"

[tomedharris]

+1 GitGutter overrides Xdebug Breakpoints which means I have to disable the GitGutter and restart ST every time I wish to do some debugging.

[yerke]

+1 I have a problem with XDebug and VCS gutter info.

[samatcd]

+1, I have this issue with GitGutter, SublimeLinter and Xdebug breakpoints. Extremely frustrating not to get that visual feedback, particularly with SublimeLinter (which is why I installed those plugins in the first place).

Although I'd prefer to be able to only have a single gutter, but to be able to set the priority for icons showing in the gutter. E.g., I'd set my priority to Xdebug always, if no Xdebug show SublimeLinter, and if neither of those, show GitGutter.

[FichteFoll]

For a single gutter I suggest a kind of icon that indicates if a line has multiple icons associated with it and then hovering the gutter at that point would show all the icons in a tooltip.

The other option would just be to enlarge the gutter by as much as is needed to display all gutter icons of a line at the same time.

[arvidbjorkstrom]

A nice behaviour, in my opinion, would be:

• A number of visible icons in the gutter - with a setting saying how many
• The rest of the icons showing up in a tooltip
• All of the gutter icons for the current row show up in the status bar
• A priority setting where you can add prioritised gutter generating plugins, in an array

Building on @samatcd and @FichteFoll's proposals =)

[georgebonnr]

:+1: even if the gutter width was adjustable, to allow icons to stack, that would be great.

[emma-sg]

:+1: @arvidbjorkstrom Sounds good! I'd love to see this implemented.

[aaron-cardenas]

At the very least you should can establish gutter priority!

[smeijer]

+1, with multiple validators (jshint, jscs), gitgutter, and bracket highlighters, the missing icons are getting really frustrating.

[JeroenVdb]

+1

[abernix]

:+1:

[jorenmartijn]

:+1: This would be great! I use SublimeLinter and Color Highlighter and the first one overwrites the later if they both have something on the same line. A use case for me for example is that I'm experimenting with styling and animating SVG icons, so when I use the CSS fill: #fff; attribute, SublimeLinter doesn't see that as a valid attribute since it's for SVG only. This results in the Linter warning overwriting the color code from Highlighter in the gutter.

[tobypinder]

I could see a perhaps easier feature would be if ST assigned each gutter-icon a "priority" (driven by user config). That way I could set, say, my GitGutter entries at a lower priority than anything that might replace them. This would seem like a more user friendly solution as multiple gutters would take up more space.

[mnort9]

+1

[amatiasq]

+1

[olivierGM]

+1

[jfmengels]

+1

[vfhrr]

+1

[tomasyany]

+1

[caladfelipe]

+1

[spandel]

+1 Using VCS Gutter and SublimeLinter. Both very pleasant packages but VCS Gutter overrides the SublimeLinter icons, so if I change something, I can't see any "linter-help" regarding it.

[cbierman]

+1 Using GitGutters and Xdebug, it becomes frustrating figuring out where your breakpoints are.

[DeanBDean]

+1 Definitely running into frustrating conflicts between XDebug, SublimeLinter and GitGutter

[QasimK]

+1

[lesenther]

:+1:

[bl4ckcontact]

+1

[cool-acid]

+1

[ghost]

Do you guys mean multiple gutters or a wider gutter? I think the gutter should accommodate and get wider/narrower depending on how many gutter plugins we have. No settings, no need to complicate things. Even 6 sequential gutter icons (same as 6 characters) wouldn't make the gutter that large so count me in.

[spandel]

@megadr01d yeah, that's how I would want it too! In my case, just setting a priority on the different plugins would help a lot, but ideally it would be great to widen the gutter and show all icons for a row.

[ghost]

@spandel A priority setting to manually sort them, OK, that would be useful.

[amatiasq]

I was thinking on a array of priorities in the settings file like

{
  gutter_priority: [
    'SublimeLinter', // First priority, in case of conflict show this one
    'GitGutter', // second priority, show it in any conflict except with SublimeLinter
    'XDebug' // etc
  ]
}

So that any package outside that list would be lower priority.

But a bigger gutter will do too.

[abernix]

For smaller monitors, it seems like there should be a 'gutter_max_icons', too.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM, A. Matías Quezada notifications@github.com wrote:

I was thinking on a array of priorities in the settings file like

{ gutter_priority: [ 'SublimeLinter', 'GitGutter', 'XDebug' ] }

So that any package outside that list would be lower priority.

But a bigger gutter will do too.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/319#issuecomment-119898002 .

[tobypinder]

@amatiasq I absolutely would agree here. The real problem that causes problems ("this line changed in git" overwriting "syntax error" etc.) is the lack of gutter priority. Additional or wider gutters, though a welcome option, would be a partial solution to that problem, and would be an option that some people would find subpar. I for one value even the couple of extra characters worth of space I'd lose, and the complete shift in how you "read" it being from vertical only to vertical with a very minor horizontal component would be a little annoying.

[spandel]

@tobypinder as I see it, they both have benefits. I totally agree in all of the points you are making, and maybe they are strong enough to prefer the "priority" option. However I also see that there could be a different value in seeing multiple icons for the same row. For example, A warning or error on a row doesn't necessarily imply that a change has been made for that row since the last commit. I'm sure there are other cases as well, however I am currently only familiar with two gutter plugins.

Personally, I would be happy with either one of them.

[aptik]

+1

[hatarist]

+1

[lapause]

+1

[wwjholmes]

+1 Hope this could be Christmas gift!

[Worth]

+1

[andheiberg]

+1

[hsbrighenti]

+1

[ThomasBormans]

+1

[marqpdx]

+1 GitGutter and BracketHighlighter

i would prefer more than one gutter, rather than prioritizing one Plugin over another. I want both the git icon and the bracket icon, side by side.

thanks! m