[Qt-creator] Crazy improvement idea #2

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 20:58:21 CET 2018


On 14/03/18 01:14, Jason H wrote:
> After my auto commenting of } comes my next crazy editor idea... Function popups.
> 
> After hovering or clicking on a function being called in code, a pop-up of the finction's source I appears and can be easily scrolled or closed.
> 
> As an enhancement, maybe only show the first few lines and the last few lines as those are likely of they most interest.

I prefer the function signature and, most importantly, the documentation 
of the function to be shown in the popup, not the code.

I can do ctrl+click on the function name and then "back button" on the 
mouse to take a look at the code.

In your suggestion, I would make code optional by having a "..." field 
in the pop-up. If I hover (or click?) that, *then* the code would be 
displayed. But not by default. Code in pop-ups is just too much and gets 
in the way of the actually useful information.




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