[ES|QL] Show helping tooltips when typing query

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[ES|QL] Show helping tooltips when typing query #177450

Open dej611 opened 7 months ago

dej611 commented 7 months ago

Describe the feature:

From @alexmarhaba offline discussion:

It’s worth exploring adding contextual help directly in the chrome of the editor. Something very short like: “type EVAL to create new field, Stats by to group by or aggregate. Wildcard: *, quotes : “”. This constant reminder will help users who don’t visit Discover regularly immediately remember how to run basic queries.

I've quickly put together a PoC which hijacks the signature provider in Monaco to provide that:

elasticmachine commented 7 months ago

Pinging @elastic/kibana-visualizations (Team:Visualizations)

elasticmachine commented 6 months ago

Pinging @elastic/kibana-esql (Team:ESQL)