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Hotkey to search the hovered text in the help #2078

Closed robertdhernandez closed 7 years ago

robertdhernandez commented 9 years ago

Coming from Game Maker, one of my favorite utilities was pressing middle mouse button on text to search it in the help screen. Shift+F1 does the same function, but having it bound to middle mouse button would be a much more major convenience.

bojidar-bg commented 9 years ago

I use middle mouse button for so many other things... like opening links, closing tabs, rotating/panning the view... I think that it will be better if it is modifier+middle mouse.

:+1: for making workflow faster, BTW

robertdhernandez commented 9 years ago

Well in the code editor, you're not clicking on links or panning the view

neikeq commented 8 years ago

Middle click is used to paste text on Linux. It could be confusing.

vnen commented 8 years ago

I don't like this as it is not intuitive. I would never think in middle-clicking for seeing the reference. It might be a common way in Game Maker, but nowhere else, AFAIK. Also, when coding I'm usually far from the mouse, so a keyboard shortcut is faster than a mouse command.

A right-click context menu with such option among others would be better. But the major IDE way to do it is just to display the method reference in a small pop-up (activated by a keyboard shortcut).

akien-mga commented 8 years ago

See also the implementation proposal and discussion in #2112.

akien-mga commented 7 years ago

Fixed by 37f1e861 \o/

chucklepie commented 5 years ago

As a new user coming from .net development, it would be nice if hover/autocomplete worked more like Visual Studio so that when you are over a method, if that method has a method comment then this is shown to provide quick contextual help. Having to press shift-f1 feels almost backward compared to most editors.