[cfe-dev] Will clangd support per parameter completion information?

[Raoul Wols via cfe-dev]

Hi Ilya, Francisco,

Yes, I definitely have plans to implement textDocument/signatureHelp. Keep
an eye on reviews.llvm.org.

Kind regards,

Raoul

2017-09-04 14:17 GMT+02:00 Ilya Biryukov <ibiryukov at google.com>:

> Hi Francisco,
>
> The LSP has this feature, it's called signature help:
> https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/
> master/protocol.md#textDocument_signatureHelp.
>
> We don't have it in clangd, but it's not hard to implement it.
> Actually, discussion about it came up during one of recent changes that
> improve completion: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37101.
> +raoulwols, who is the author of the change. Raoul, maybe you had plans
> regarding signature help?
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:20 PM Francisco Lopes via cfe-dev <
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, can anyone provide info whether clangd will cover support for
>>> completion
>>> after ( or , as supported by libclang as explained at:
>>>
>>> http://nosubstance.me/articles/2015-01-29-better-completion-for-cpp/
>>>
>>> This is quite useful when one need to get type information for a given
>>> parameter
>>> without having to rewrite the entire function to get completion +
>>> placeholders.
>>>
>>
>> I'd say it should; the question is obviously the priority / timeline :)
>>
>> I also don't know whether Language Server Protocol is friendly to such
>>> feature.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Francisco Lopes
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>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ilya Biryukov
>
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