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clojure-emacs
Add mouse-over and right-click support to symbols
When the user hovers the mouse pointer over a symbol, we could show info such as
- relevant metadata,
- Is it a local, a Var from this namespace, or a Var from another namespace?
On right-click, we could offer all operations that act on symbols (find source, documentation, etc).
Excellent idea! A few times users have discussed with me that CIDER is not mouse-friendly (and many newcomers are not exactly Emacs ninjas...).
I'd like to try this. I'll submit a PR soon. Also, is there something else to be done for which there's no issue filed yet ? Like the docstring thing ? I really enjoyed doing that. Otherwise for the next few days, I'm gonna try and take up issues tagged with the 0.13 milestone.
Nothing in particular comes to mind, but there's always something else to be done. :-)
As for the current feature. The idea is to add a few (2 or 3) submenus inside the right-click menu listing all operations that act on a symbol-at-point. Feel free to tackle it. 👍🙏
I couldn't work on this for the last two days. The PR should be ready by tomorrow.
@bbastov I had forgotten about this one. Ever since I've started taking classes at the university again, I'm not getting as much time to work on CIDER as I would like. I'll try to take this up next week :-)
Another idea along the same lines: ctrl+clicking on a var could take you to its definition. This is a common pattern in other ides.
I'm going to close this one simply because the years kept passing.
PRs certainly welcome.
Anyone can take a look at cider*.el - there should be plenty of APIs that a motivated user can leverage.
