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Add "Show help for current object" option to Editor context menu #978
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From ccordoba12 on 2013-02-13T09:16:03Z On my plans for 2.3. Status: Accepted |
From pierre.raybaut on 2013-05-11T06:00:49Z Labels: -MS-v2.3 MS-v2.4 |
I don't know about real time, that could get distracting, but it would be nice to have a menu item/shortcut for "show the object under the cursor in the object inspector" |
I think that's what |
Ah, cool, yep, that works. But there's no corresponding menu item, so there's no easy way to discover that. |
Please read the Usage message shown in the Object Inspector every time Spyder is started. What we could do is adding an entry in the context menu of both the Editor and the Consoles called Show help for the current object that has the same effect. What about that? |
Heh. I never noticed that :P Yeah, context menu would be great. It might also go well in the 'source' menu. |
From vbgunz on 2012-03-27T08:38:23Z
Current options are "Source: Console" and "Source: Editor". Is it possible to ask for a third "Source: Cursor"? It would behave by automatically updating the "Object Inspector" to wherever the cursor is in real time.
It would be nice to have an immediate reference to a member without having to ask for it. An always updating "Object Inspector" should make re/familiarizing oneself with any well documented module easier without the developer having to break their work-flow to Google, read docs, sift through source, switch windows, play with options, etc.
At least, hopefully it'll keep a developer from breaking more often.
The last request is linking back to the "Online help" from the "Object Inspector". A good example is os.path.abspath. The OI shows immediate information about abspath but doesn't provide a way to jump to modules path OR os.
The main points of the above feature requests is making "Learning" an integral part of "Coding". This is why I personally picked Python and IDE's really need to catch up with this concept. This is why when I first tried Spyder (yesterday), it showed promise in this area unlike any other Python IDE.
I hope the request is feasible. Thank you for the opportunity to share it with you.
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=978
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