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Bug 451981

Summary:	Implement a 'show hover' command
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Eric Moffatt <emoffatt>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Eric Moffatt <emoffatt>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	curtis.windatt.public, mamacdon
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	9.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	450152

Description Eric Moffatt

2014-11-17 15:56:36 EST

To support folks who keep their hands on the keyboard we need a way to 'invoke' the hover from the keyboard. The difference here is that instead of producing the information based on the pointer position it uses the current location of the caret.

Over time we'll make this a parameterized command and (re)use it to show different flavors of info...

Comment 1 Eric Moffatt

2014-11-17 16:02:07 EST

I've just pushed a Gerrit review for this....

https://git.eclipse.org/r/36597

Comment 2 Eric Moffatt

2014-11-21 15:29:50 EST

I've committed the initial version of this. Currently the command is bound to Ctrl+Shift+e, we should see if we can find a more appropriate binding (F2 ?)...

https://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=6a897f71a3b789973503c0d54adeeedb93157b19

Comment 3 Mark Macdonald

2014-11-21 16:32:25 EST

Yes, Ctrl+Shift+E is problematic in Firefox since it normally opens the Tab Groups view. Orion tries to avoid clobbering native browser keybindings unless we have to override a similar action that is irrelevant or wrong in our context (like Ctrl+S or Ctrl+F).

I think F2 would be good (very Eclipse-like).

Comment 4 Curtis Windatt

2015-05-07 17:21:01 EDT

This was fixed, but the F2 key binding causes conflicts with the navigator.  See Bug 465425.