posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Add an input to the help pane to look up a help topic
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Description
R Studio's help pane has a search input box that allows the user to look up a help topic. We should add the same capability to Positron.
The search term should be sent to the help comm channel of the active language runtime.
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 help pane implementation and the help communication channel for the active language runtime. Add a search input that sends its term through that channel, and verify that a help topic can be looked up from the pane.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100