The margin is located below the bottom scrollbar and comes in handy when writing extensions that extends the VS editor.

Toggle on/off

Toggle the margin visibility on/off from a new button on the Standard toolbar.

Bottom margin

Document encoding

Shows the encoding of the current document and more details on hover.

Content type

Shows the content type of the ITextBuffer at the caret position. The hover tooltip shows the name of the base content type.

Classification

Displays the name of the classification at the caret position in the document. The hover tooltip shows the inheritance hierarchy of the EditorFormatDefinition's BaseDefinition attribute.

Selection

Displays the start and end position of the editor selection as well as the total length of the selection.

License

Apache 2.0