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Sublime text package for R
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ST2 function tooltip for R #3

Open jlegewie opened 12 years ago

jlegewie commented 12 years ago

Hi,

building on my last issue, the actual goal is to have function tooltip as shown here for Notepad++ (second screenshot): http://yihui.name/en/2010/08/auto-completion-in-notepad-for-r-script/

That would really be useful but the current ST2 architecture only offers limited ways to do that. Take a look at this thread for a discussion about that: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2670 and you can also cote for the issue here: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/54838-/

As long as ST2 does not support tooltips, a workaround would be to put the function help in the status bar. SublimeCodeintel does that for some languages. I think that the content of the tooltips can be automatically generated from R and saved in a json file (based on the script of the completion file I mentioned in the other issue). For example, for rnorm the tooltip should look like rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 1) to show the arguments and the default values.

If you are interested in working on this, I could cover the R side (i.e. automatically generate the json file with the tool tips). Maybe there is also a better way to achieve this...

jlegewie commented 12 years ago

I am trying to address this with this plugin: https://github.com/jlegewie/SublimePeek Works pretty well so far...