F1 for help does not work in Positron Visual Editor Mode

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in a Quarto document's visual mode and tracing how F1 help is handled in Positron. Check the existing help behavior in regular editing mode, then verify that F1 opens function help from visual mode as well.

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Description

visual-editor

In Positron, when you press F1, if the text under your cursor is a function, Positron will show you the help for that function. When editing a Quarto document in visual mode, F1 does not trigger help.

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Running Positron in Workbench Posit Workbench 2025.11.0-daily+85.pro1, “Apple Blossom” (ecf3c5c2).

Positron Version: 2025.09.0 build 119
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 77e07108634cbd2c41201c8e16cc94e55f85ab87
Date: 2025-08-26T15:52:53.196Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Dominant language
TypeScript
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645
Forks
62
Avg merge
17h 42m
Merged PRs (30d)
13

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