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3/5 --[[User:Kosashi.gmail.com|Tomasz Wesołowski]] 16:49, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 
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This is a problem page. Please treat it as a discussion page and feel free to insert your comments anywhere. My open questions are in bold--Tomasz Wesołowski 16:49, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Description

Hovering the mouse cursor around the symbol yields its definition. This is useful, but in many circumstances the information provided is incomplete. For example, for methods, it does not contain the name of the enclosing class, its namespace and access modifier.

The most important information is the (doc) comment that is usually precedes the declaration Eclipse.sprigogin.gmail.com 07:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC).

Ranking

Category: navigation

Importance:

3/5 --Tomasz Wesołowski 16:49, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

2/5 --Sergey Prigogin 07:35, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

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Solution

The hover needs to be modified to show not only the definition of a symbol, but:

  • Place of declaration and definition
  • Namespace
  • If applicable: Access specificator
  • If applicable: Context

More?

References

Bug 281437 requests this feature.

Bug 297444 states that namespace should be shown in hovers.

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