Delphi XE IDE "jump to code" issue

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When using the “Jump to function” (can’t remember the name for the CTRL + click) in the Delphi XE IDE, sometimes it opens the correct unit / form, but the cursor is put at entirely the wrong line.

Is this because the unit has had the functions and/or classes manually moved around at some point? Even if I tidy the implementations up to match the order in the interface section, the jump functions don’t always work correctly.

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This is often an artifact of mixed line endings. Open the file in an external editor and turn on showing line endings (I used notepad++) and see if that’s the case.

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I just downloaded Notepad++ and opened a file that has the issue.

Turning on Show All Characters shows that every line has just the CR LF at the end.

But, I did notice something else. When cleaning up the source, I must have deleted the

{ TClassName }

at the start of one of the classes. Once I restored that, the jump function worked correctly.

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