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Class dot help extended with comments in Java #4050

Open philiprbrenan opened 1 week ago

philiprbrenan commented 1 week ago

Geany provides a useful drop down showing the fields and methods in a Java class if one types a dot beside a variable referencing an object in that class.

In the image below, I have just typed a dot on line 78 and in the drop down we can see that field eeeeeeee defined on line 87 is a possible choice to follow the dot:

geanyDotHelp

Please could Geany also display any comment associated with that field definition as this would significantly further assist the user in their choice of the correct field or method name ?

techee commented 1 week ago

I'm afraid ctags parsers that Geany uses to extract symbols just strip all the comments so there's no way for Geany to show them.