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In the text pane, we like to provide information to the users via the tooltip mechanisms. It would be nice to be able to display these messages with a keyboard shortcut, instead of requiring the mouse to move over portion of text.
Sorry I don't quite understand this issue. Do you mean some specific tooltip in NB editor or displaying tooltips on keyboard events generally?
There already are shortcuts for displaying tooltips - eg. Ctrl+P for method parameters or Alt+Enter for hints. What exactly are you missing? Could you give us an example? Thanks
I mean for a general case. Let's say we're in debug mode and we attach a tooltip to variable name to display the value of that variable. But the BuildToolTip action is only triggered after a mouse event. So we would have to use the mouse to get that data value tip.
Ok, so you want a shortcut, which would display a tooltip for the position where the caret is as if the user moved the mouse pointer there and waited. Correct?
From mkatz by email: "Yes, exactly."
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