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Bug 51058

Summary:	Decouple code assist from file editing
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Brandon Rife <brandonrife>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	xdonat
Version:	2.1.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Brandon Rife

2004-02-02 11:42:56 EST

Code-assist only works when the file displayed in the editor is write enabled. 
It would also be desirable for code-assist to function during code reading
exercises,  irregardless of a file's read-only state.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2004-02-02 12:05:20 EST

Code assist helps you write code. What would be the use cases for your feature
request?

Comment 2 Brandon Rife

2004-02-02 14:01:43 EST

Code assist helps me to read code by providing 'inline' information about
objects referenced in the source that I'm reading. Without code assist I have to
open a referenced object's source file, an act that generally helps me to lose
my place in the original source file.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2004-02-03 02:50:52 EST

You can get the same information by
- hover ( -> Javadoc)
- Ctrl + hover ( -> shows source in hover)
- Javadoc view
- Declaration view

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2005-10-03 06:42:24 EDT

*** Bug 27959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***