jannisCode
commented
1 month ago it is very hard to get the position of ^ right, because the " " is smaller (les wide) than some characters. If you type a lot of i´s for example you need a different amount of spaces compared to a lot of a´s. Based on that and how often the letters of the alphabet are used on average, I found out that it is "most accurate" to always add two spaces (" " compared to " ") and for every third character only one space.
This is obviously not a good solution, which is why I want to propose the following: Instead of putting the arrow in the line below, why don´t we put it in the respective line like so:
This ensures that the arrow always points on the right character.
Until now i did not find a solution for the arrow in the line below. If there is anything i can try, i am very open to suggestions on how i could implement it.
fedejeanne
Problem
Some important information is lost when the error message of the regex validation of the search is done, namely the offending character.
After applying https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/pull/2373, the error message will look like this:
...when it could look more like this:
In the screenshot, you can see that the
^is off: it should be right under the[Goal
Show the multi-line error like the one in the last screenshot but place the
^correctly.In other multi-line error messages where the extra line does not add any value, the error message should have only 1 line.
This can be easily spotted by the fact that there is no
^in the error message.