How to highlight current line of execution in debug perspective in Eclipse

Question

I would like to see the current execution line highlighted in green with arrow at the left in my Eclipse Debug perspective.

Unfortunately I don't know how to set it. I have seen it in some Eclipse platform and wondering if I can set it to display.

I am using Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.2.

Answer 1

My problem was that I hadn't terminated the debugger. Clicking the red square terminate button (shown in the screenshot below) and then running the debug again made the current line show up highlighted again.

Answer 2

I get this from time to time and haven't been able to pin down the root cause but usually it resolves itself if I terminate the debugger, close the source code window with the breakpoint and then restart the debugger. When the breakpoint is hit Eclipse is forced to re-open the source window and then the breakpoint line is highlighted and Eclipse appears to highlight lines going forward.

Answer 3

DebugConfigurations > Source tab > Add... > Java Project > Select All (or select your project) > Ok > Ok > Apply Relaunch debugger

i just repost what Sudhanshu has writen, it worked very well for me.

Answer 4

In debug perspective, double click to the left of a line to set a break point. Once a break point is set, you can highlight running code line by line.

If it doesn't work as expected, just check your preferences here: Window > Preferences > General > Editors > All Text Editors > Annotations > Debug Call Stack and Debug Current Instruction Pointer

Answer 5

I just had to reboot eclipse, and everything started working perfectly.

Answer 6

For others, if it can solve yours. I had similar issue. I see it highlighted, stopped at breakpoint. But I wasn't able to use step by step (F6) debug. Reason was that eclipse stopped due to break point and highlighted/selected top thread in debug.

So I selected current thread, by verifying one by one, till the current code(stopped due to breakpoint) highlighted.

To see threads running add debug view if not shown. Window > Show view > Debug.

This also helped me while debugging 2 threads separately on running programme.

There seems no short keys to locate current Thread from code stopped due to breakpoint.

Answer 7

Check your class path and be sure the project source directory is in there. If you are debugging an enterprise application clean temp and working directories and republish your application.