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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for Power Systems
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Developer for Power Systems
This RFE is a duplicate of another RFE. See for current status.
Would it be sufficient to just show comment information in the content assist?
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Since both the "\" and the "@" are acceptable tag prefix characters it must be able to support both. Possibly make it a configurable option or parse both all of the time.
This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and will be under consideration for a future release. Status has been updated to Uncommitted Candidate.
The display of the procedure documentation should support the rendering of HTML or any other well-defined external documentation syntax such as ILEDocs. This could be easily done by checking line 1 of the procedure header comments for a valid render type identifier (render.html, or render.iledocs, etc) and then supporting this with the ability to attach a renderer to the render type identifier in the LPEX Editor options.
This way we can develop other documentation styles, or take adavantage of existing styles. A ILEDocs renderer within the LPEX Editor would be a great aid for developers.
I want to second the M_F and KurtAnderson comments.
This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.
As an extension of this request: a D spec keyword (Help('text')) at PR definition or parameters definition. So the help text will be available not only in content assist but also to PCL interfaces or other functions (EGL service generations, doc services etc...).
As an extension of this request, I would think showing the parameter names in content assist would be valuable as well.