microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Include STL documentation in the Quick Info tooltips
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Description
Feature Request
The type information is not friendly enough. For example, when I write 'vector.push_back', type information is very hard to understand, then I have to visit the cpp official website to get more information. On the other hand, look at other languages such as typescript or Rust, the type information is very friendly, I can understand the meaning of function or object quickly, even more, I could get the usage example from type information. And that brings more fun to my programming experience.
So, could we add a feature to cpp, make it more friendly and interesting?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Quick Info implementation in the C/C++ extension and determining how STL symbols and documentation are currently represented. Define the supported STL information and usage examples, then validate the tooltip behavior in VS Code; the issue names no files or tests to use as an entry point.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- developer-experience, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100