I think the behaviour of this feature is not as expected. I took some screenshots to show what I'm talking about:
1) In a step during debugging, I inspect the variable $pgsql, which is a string containing many line breaks in the form of "\r\n". I'm viewing its content in the "PHP format". Everything ok here.
2) I change the view mode to not "PHP format", and I got small squares in place of the previous "\r\n". Everything ok here.
3)When I move the mouse over the value of the variable, I get a yellow "tip" showing its value with the line breaks. I didn't kow about this feature. It's very nice! But, the 'tip' seems to be too large. In fact, it takes all the screen width, even across the phpED borders when phpED is not maximized as in this screenshot. When I move out the mouse, the screen is still exactly like in (2).
4) Now I right-click over the variable, and its value is shown in the pane whith line breaks! It's even better than the tip!
. But I got this only after I right-clicked. I think I should get it just after selecting not "PHP format".
5) When I selected to go back to the "PHP format", the value of the variable is the same as the start, but it's "box" is as it was when with the line breaks. The only way I found to correct this seems to be right_clicking once more.
I hope these shots made it clear. I'm using build 4620.