microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools

parse HTML tag in doc comment

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Feature Request Feature: Doc comments Language Service
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

Type: Feature Request

The HTML tags in hover tooltips failed to display as formatted text due to a lack of parsing-HTML-tags feature.

For more details, please refer to discussion #8860

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Research direction

Discussion #8860 is the only entry point named and provides the requested context. Read that discussion, then trace the hover-tooltip handling in the TypeScript VS Code extension; done means HTML tags in those tooltips are parsed and displayed as formatted text.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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