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Feature Request: Please add division/section/paragraph separator lines

  • April 21, 2020
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When browsing COBOL code quickly with the mouse scroll wheel, it's frequently hard to find divisions, or sections, or paragraphs.

The current folding indicators are not much of a help when scrolling because they are set aside the code and they are tiny.

I believe the following feature suggestion would be very savvy and useful to have available in Micro Focus Visual COBOL:

The user should be able to have border lines displayed above any of these three partitioning syntax elements.

This is similar to the VisualBASIC option Tools > Options > Text Editor > Basic > Advanced > Show procedure line separators.

I suggest to have a similar feature (and corresponding settings at Tools > Options > Text Editor > Micro Focus COBOL > Advanced) for Micro Focus Visual COBOL.

Please refer to the images I attached for visualization of the idea: