We actually have the same issues and do use multi-line comments. Multi-line
comments are fit when the comment applies to the whole block in our case. I
see what you mean, but it's a confusing option to use for us.
On Jan 6, 2012 8:01 PM, "David Trowbridge" <trowb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We don't show additional context right now (I suppose we could consider
> adding
> such an option), but are you aware of multi-line comments? If the comment
> applies to a block of code more than one line in length, you can click and
> drag
> to specify all the relevant lines. This lets the reviewer decide how much
> context
> is necessary, and if you're not using it already, would probably go a long
> way
> towards solving your problem.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Marco <ma...@snaplogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> here we all love RB, and use it happily.
>> However, there's one feature missing that drives us nuts: in review
>> mode, when going through the reviewer's comments, only the actual line
>> the comment is relative to is displayed.
>>
>> Often, it would be very useful to be able to see the 'context' of the
>> line (eg, a couple of lines above and below) but we seem unable to
>> find an option that would allow us to enable that, so we're assuming
>> that's not possible.
>>
>> One colleagues suggested, as a workaround, that we have 3 monitors:
>> one for the review, one for the diff, and the third for Eclipse/emacs/
>> vim whatever - is that about right?
>>
>> If you guys could implement this (or suggest a workaround that does
>> not treble our IT budget) that'd be most appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marco.
>>
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