Support for Elixir documentation

[rhumbertgz]

Hello,

Could be possible to enable Elixir documentation through "Quick Documentation"?

I was trying to do it in the same way that I added the Elixir source code:

Doing this I got the autocomplete for the core-libs of Elixir, but the documentation doesn't work for me. I tried with several sources as you can see:

Any suggestion? Is there a way to do it?

Thanks in adavance,
Humberto

[KronicDeth]

I don't think using Documentation Paths would be a good idea since that's rendered HTML, but I'd have to look at how the Documentation Paths work for Java to figure out if they can consume HTML.

I would probably implement this in two features:

1. If the source is available, then get the @doc and @moduledoc and show that.
2. If the source is not available, then decompile the .beam and get the @doc and @moduledoc output of that and put it in the decompiled version of the .beam. This fake source will then be parsed by (1) and it will work as normal.

But yeah, if linking to hexdocs.pm worked, that would be crazy awesome too.

[rhumbertgz]

@KronicDeth thanks for your fast reply!

[OvermindDL1]

But yeah, if linking to hexdocs.pm worked, that would be crazy awesome too.

This would be killer!

[smeevil]

+1

[CptnKirk]

+1

[Aetherus]

+1

[Znack]

+1 it should be amazingly useful

[simoneggler]

+1

[Nimamoh]

+1

[Tsuyoshi84]

+1

[eagle-te]

+1

[dwhelan]

+1

[IvanShpotenko]

+1

[CleytonGoncalves]

+1. Btw thanks for your amazing work!

[blakedietz]

+1. Thank you for your hard work Kronic.

[swalloda]

+1

[Timtonix]

+2

[KronicDeth]

This was added in #1792 and first released in v11.8.0 on August 4th 2020.

[KronicDeth]

@swalloda @Timtonix it was already there when you +1’d the feature.