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JADE IDE tooltips currently show you information about the thing under the cursor, but this is limited to technical information like method signature or attribute type.

It would be nice if the tooltips could contain a short description of the thing under the cursor, maybe just the one sentence description of the item from the documentation e.g. "The purge method of the Collection class deletes all objects in a collection and clears the collection; that is, size = 0."
  • John Munro
  • May 1 2019
  • Closed
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FileVision UK Ltd 20/04/2018 2:11:04 AM
You're right, that works, I guess the NFS is just for the built-in classes then.

Brian Johnstone 19/04/2018 4:00:39 PM
While this won't help with RootSchema defined classes, in Jade2016 when I hover the mouse over classes/properties/methods defined in our schemas I do get the details from the text which has been set for that class/property/method showing up in the tool tip in addition to the usual information. Similarly, when moving the selection on an autocomplete list or when within the parentheses of a method call, it shows the text for that class/property/method in additional to the usual information. I'd attach a screen shot showing this, but you can't put screen shots into a comment. Are you not seeing this behaviour in your Jade2016 environment?
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  • Ty Baen-Price commented
    November 08, 2019 03:06

    If we think about this, it kind of means we'd replicate (or move) the existing documentation  into the IDE. Doable, but you can just press F1 on stuff.

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  • Iryna Melnyk commented
    November 08, 2019 02:33

    Closing this due to current design limitations and an existing workaround in place.

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