Annotations are marks that indicate attributes of a line in the Source Editor. They are indicated by highlighted lines, glyphs in the left margin of the Source Editor, or both. You can modify the Annotation properties to customize how the different types of annotations are displayed and how the annotations are handled generally. You can modify the Annotation properties in the Options window.
To access the Annotation properties, choose Tools > Options and click Advanced Options. Expand the Editing node in the left pane and select the Annotation Types node to set general properties. Expand the Annotation Types node and select an individual annotation node to set individual properties.
Set these properties to define how annotations and the glyph margin are displayed.
If True, the glyphs that are not currently displayed in the glyph margin appear in the background of the Source Editor.
Use a small percentage if you want the glyphs to appear faint, and therefore less likely to interfere with the text that covers them. Use a high percentage if you want to be able to see the glyphs more easily behind the text.
If False, multiple annotations are never combined into one glyph. Instead, only
one annotation is displayed in the glyph margin, along with
the multiple annotations image (). Click on this image to cycle through all the
annotations for a line.
Some annotations can never be combined, such as a bookmark and breakpoint.
If False, the annotations glyphs are displayed to the right of the line number, if line numbers are displayed. In this case, both annotations and line numbers are visible for every line.
If False, the glyph margin is not initially displayed when there are no annotations. However, after annotations numbers are added and then removed, the glyph margin will remain until the file is closed and reopened in the Source Editor.
Set these properties to define the color and display of individual annotation types.
If False, the entire annotated line is displayed using the annotation's Foreground Color property. This overwrites normal syntax highlighting colors.