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Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175034]

Fri, 18 August 2006 14:51

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Originally posted by: use.net.cakruege.neverbox.com

Hello,

is it possible to get a context sensitive help in CDT like in java?
If I hover "System.out.println();" in java I get:
void java.io.PrintStream.println()
Terminate the current line by writing the line separator string. The line
separator string is defined by the system property line.separator, and is
not necessarily a single newline character ('\n').

greetings
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Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175115 is a reply to message #175034]

Mon, 21 August 2006 12:01

Eclipse User

Carsten,

CDT does not have this sort of "documentation hover" out of the box. You
could supply your own help provider but that takes writing your own plug-in
with the right extensions and Java classes. (Ask me if you want more
information ...)

Cheers,

Norbert

Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175188 is a reply to message #175115]

Tue, 22 August 2006 08:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: use.net.cakruege.neverbox.com

Am Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:01:07 +0200 schrieb Norbert Ploett:
>
> CDT does not have this sort of "documentation hover" out of the box.

oh, I tought that version 3 is so mature that it has such a feature.

> You could supply your own help provider but that takes writing your own plug-in
> with the right extensions and Java classes. (Ask me if you want more
> information ...)

I don't think that I could do that.

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Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175272 is a reply to message #175188]

Wed, 23 August 2006 01:44

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Carsten,

> oh, I tought that version 3 is so mature that it has such a feature.

this is not only a question of maturity but also a question of who has
authoritative documentation of the C/C++ language and the standard libraries
and is willing to publish them under the eclipse license. There was an
interesting post in thread "Re: C++ Language Reference within CDT" on
2006-08-22 about such online documentation.

(see message id <d75d78ec7158bf696941cef3d3cc323a$1@www.eclipse.org>)

Cheers,

Norbert

Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175302 is a reply to message #175272]

Wed, 23 August 2006 06:57

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: use.net.cakruege.neverbox.com

Am Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:44:02 +0200 schrieb Norbert Ploett:

> this is not only a question of maturity but also a question of who has
> authoritative documentation of the C/C++ language and the standard libraries
> and is willing to publish them under the eclipse license.

Why should this matter?
It should be extracted from the original documentation of the used
compiler.
The ISO-Standard-help would be little bit to few.
No POSIX, no windows-API etc.
Problematic are third party classes because their is no defined helpformat.

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Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175310 is a reply to message #175302]

Wed, 23 August 2006 07:08

Eclipse User

What you suggest is clearly a copyright violation of the material from
the "original documentation of the used compiler."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_violation

If the license holder of the original compiler contributed this
documentation to the CDT under EPL, then this feature would be possible
-- otherwise there is little chance of it happening.

- Dave

Carsten Krueger wrote:
> Am Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:44:02 +0200 schrieb Norbert Ploett:
>
>> this is not only a question of maturity but also a question of who has
>> authoritative documentation of the C/C++ language and the standard libraries
>> and is willing to publish them under the eclipse license.
>
> Why should this matter?
> It should be extracted from the original documentation of the used
> compiler.
> The ISO-Standard-help would be little bit to few.
> No POSIX, no windows-API etc.
> Problematic are third party classes because their is no defined helpformat.
>
> greetings
> Carsten

Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175318 is a reply to message #175310]

Wed, 23 August 2006 07:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: use.net.cakruege.neverbox.com

Am Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:08:41 -0400 schrieb David Daoust:

> What you suggest is clearly a copyright violation of the material from
> the "original documentation of the used compiler."

No.
It should not be copied and distributed with CDT but extracted in realtime
like with java.

greetings
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Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175350 is a reply to message #175318]

Thu, 24 August 2006 00:48

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Originally posted by: ahanwadi+cdt.gmail.com

Maybe we can use the "man pages" as a reference for system and library
calls. Also, I know vim has a plugin that comes with C/C++ reference.

Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175365 is a reply to message #175350]

Thu, 24 August 2006 02:01

Eclipse User

Ashish,

I think your approach is valid if man is called in the background and it's
output is reworked in an eclipse plugin to become a html help page. This is
because calling a tool and using it via a pipe is allowed by the GPL.
On the other hand it would not be allowed to package the man documentation
files inside the plugin and extract the information directly.

Actually I have thought of creating such a man page help provider but have
not yet found the time. I think that man based help is pretty generic and
available on most platforms. Any volunteers? Post suggestions to cdt-dev,
create a bugzilla and submit your patches. I'll evaluate them and commit
them if they are good :-)

Similar thoughts are valid, e.g. for .chm help provider ...

Cheers,

Norbert

"Ashish" <ahanwadi+cdt@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e89111c40b0b3986119b31b9b473d7a5$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Maybe we can use the "man pages" as a reference for system and library
> calls. Also, I know vim has a plugin that comes with C/C++ reference.
>
>

Re: Context senistive help for c/c++ if using Cygwin? [message #175493 is a reply to message #175365]

Fri, 25 August 2006 07:27

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: use.net.cakruege.neverbox.com

Am Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:01:19 +0200 schrieb Norbert Ploett:

> I think your approach is valid if man is called in the background and it's
> output is reworked in an eclipse plugin to become a html help page. This is
> because calling a tool and using it via a pipe is allowed by the GPL.

Exact that is my idea, I didn't explained ist good. But maybe not calling
the command "man" but building a manpage reader for CDT.

> On the other hand it would not be allowed to package the man documentation
> files inside the plugin and extract the information directly.

ACK

> Similar thoughts are valid, e.g. for .chm help provider ...

ACK

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