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Hi Karl,

Right, I had completely forgotten about this! Will look into it in the next days.

Guys,

another kind of GitHub search

Replace in XIDE the "Tools -> "Preferences" -> "Advanced" -> "Search engine URL" setting with: When you double-click a function name and right select "Search web for selected Text"
the Github search starts with the word "Function " + the selected text.

How about a XIDE PopUp menu enhancement ?

Search Github for Selected Text
Search Github for 'FUNCTION ' + Selected Text
Search Github for 'METHOD ' + Selected Text
etc.
etc.
...


regards
Karl-Heinz

Karl-Heinz,
problem is, if you do this the search for NON-Git content won't work anymore.

I'm confident, Chris will come with a generic solution

Hi Karl,

Karl-Heinz meant a new function - other 3 entries in the XIDE context menu. That could be easily written in a XIDE plugin.

Wolfgang

Haha that was a smart way to do it Karl-Heinz, would never think of it myself! But yeah, as the guys said it is better if I will take care for it internally.

Actually this context sensitive help search did work properly in the past, but was using the vulcan help file (if you have vulcan installed, press SHIFT+F1 on a keyword, it will still open the topic for that keyword in the vulcan help file). Need to remap everything now, to the X# help file or online documentation. Or maybe both with an option...

Hi Chris,
if you could to that, I would like it.
Otherwise I was thinking about implementing it in my plugin (and sharing it of course).
Wolfgang

Hi Chris,

Yeah, when it´s possible to open with Shift+f1 the associated help description, the [view sources] button does the rest . Whereby it´s even possible to add the line number where the func starts. I saw that in earlier X# help files, but i think it´s not easy to keep in sync, because every changes made changes the position of each function header within a prg.

https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic ... S.prg#L282

regards
Karl-Heinz

Hi Karl-Heinz,
I would not implement this as Shift-F1 replacement, but put in rather in the context menu.
Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

it´s not about my first post and not about a SHIFT+F1 replacement. It´s about the possibility that in XIDE the keys F1 or SHIFT+F1 open the X# help. When i click on the word "Right" and press SHIFT+F1 the X# help should open and jump to the description of the function Right(). According what Chris said, it does work with a VN Help file.

regards
Karl-Heinz

Exactly.
BTW, @Chris: you might consider swapping F1 and Shift-F1 - i think, we look a lot less often into Xide's help as otherwise
I know, it's contrary to "the rule", but in the end lazyness wins...