microsoft / microsoft/vscode-js-debug
Support letting a language server provide additional metadata on values
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Description
👋 been enjoying this extension, great work.
It's a bit of a blue-sky idea, but an interesting case would be enum values.
For example selecting kind in the editor below could request some kind extended metadata about the raw value. So it would have the chance go from this:
To this:
And maybe type information could then be available if you keep the mouse hovering?
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by clarifying how language-server metadata should be requested and displayed for enum values, including whether hover type information is in scope; done would mean an agreed implementation path and verified metadata display.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100