posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Render math in R completion popups and help
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area: completions
area: editor
lang: r
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
For example, the help for rnorm as viewed in RStudio:
VSCode appears to only accept Markdown and plain text by default, though. Here's that that looks like with a naive HTML-to-Markdown implementation with Pandoc.
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
The issue names completion popups and help views but no files or tests. Start by locating those rendering entry points in the Positron TypeScript client and review the Markdown/plain-text behavior described for VS Code. Done means mathematical notation from R help renders correctly in both completion popups and help.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100