It wouldn't take much work for us to add context to this. Just +/- a couple of lines when determining the range. We'd probably want to somehow make it clear that it's context and not the affected code, though. That would maybe require a little more thought.
Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Chris Tooley <ch...@tooley.com> wrote: > 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at >>> http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ >>> Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >>> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at >> http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ >> Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en