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Add Support for Expression Context Pinning

Open SougandhS opened this issue 2 months ago • 2 comments

This PR introduces a new feature in the Expressions view that allows expressions to be pinned to a specific stack frame, ensuring their values remain visible and consistent even when switching between threads or stack frames or even launches. This enhancement improves the debugging experience by preventing frequent <error on evaluation> issues (if one wishes to see the variables/expressions again) and enables developers to track and compare expressions or variables (by watch) across different contexts more effectively.

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Pinned expressions will be highlighted with Bold and italics image

This can be removed/unpinned manually or will be removed/unpinned if context not available image

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63e68e0a-3a8a-4ab2-8bd3-951098a9cd33

(apologies for the poor video quality - had to compress the size below 10 MB)

SougandhS avatar Oct 19 '25 08:10 SougandhS

Test Results

 1 947 files  ±0   1 947 suites  ±0   1h 37m 22s ⏱️ + 1m 47s  4 721 tests ±0   4 697 ✅ ±0   24 💤 ±0  0 ❌ ±0  14 163 runs  ±0  13 996 ✅ ±0  167 💤 ±0  0 ❌ ±0 

Results for commit c8058885. ± Comparison against base commit 7c907897.

:recycle: This comment has been updated with latest results.

github-actions[bot] avatar Oct 19 '25 09:10 github-actions[bot]

  • the feedback that the value is pinned to a particular context (only bold) is not explicit; The context on which the evaluation is applied should be made more explicit

Additional label can be provided 👍

  • When an expression is pinned to a context, it's easily possible to get the value from another context

But in different launches it will be difficult.

SougandhS avatar Oct 20 '25 11:10 SougandhS