Feature Request: Extracting/Copying a function's return type

[m1cm1c]

Relevant Version Numbers

• OS: Manjaro (up to date)
• Tide: more recent than the latest release (master branch during March)
• TypeScript: 4.6.2 (using es6 as configured in tsconfig.json)
• Node: v16.9.1
• Emacs: 27.2

Feature Request

Tide is able to display a function's type – including the type of its return value – in a transient window. However, it's not possible to switch to this window nor is there any buffer in the buffer list corresponding to the last type shown.

Because a function's return type can be quite complex (e.g. in the case of a function returning a big object), it'd be of great help to be able to copy that return type to then insert it into a proper type definition and annotate the function with the name of that type definition.

[ananthakumaran]

check the second FAQ https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide#faq

[m1cm1c]

@ananthakumaran Thank you very much!

I misunderstood what this command does. To prevent others from misunderstanding what it does, I propose #448.

[ananthakumaran]

Thanks, merged