[Qt-creator] Expand Macro on mouse over (Feature Request?)

[Michael Jackson]

I went back and fired up Eclipse and took some screen shots to better show what Eclipse does for the same macro.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io>
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 3:54 AM
To: Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
Cc: "qt-creator at qt-project.org" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Expand Macro on mouse over (Feature Request?)

    
    > On 23. Oct 2017, at 17:54, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
    > 
    > Before I added a feature request I just wanted to get a general idea if others would like the feature. Back in the dark days when I used Eclipse for C++ development one of the features of the editor that I still miss was the ability to mouse over a C/C++ macro and the popup would show the fully expanded macro. This was handy in a few situations when trying to debug the macro or just see what the expanded code looks like. This is especially useful for deeply nested macros.
    > 
    > Are there thoughts one way or another? Has anyone tried to implement this feature?
    
    Qt Creator does that (for me). Though the code is not nicely formatted, so there is room for improvement.
    
    Br, Eike
    
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