I found Spyder today and am super excited about it for 2 reasons. The first is "object inspector". The second is "online help". It's awesome to add the fun back to programming with unknown or little known code. After using Spyder for a bit and feeling great about it, I noticed there are some things I wish Spyder could do quicker. This isn't perhaps the best place to ask for features but I appreciate your time.
For one, the "object inspector" I hope provides enough ground work to add a feature. Currently there is "Source: Console" and "Source: Editor". Is it possible to add a "Source: Cursor" and how it works is, it follows the cursor and is able to immediately, without any interaction, etc, provide a helpful overview on objects currently selected, highlighted or in which the cursor is over/before, (bonus would be if it could update while in auto-completion and not wait for an opening parenthesis)? In other words, it would be amazing to get immediate inline help as you code and-use-the consoles without having to interact in anyway with the "object inspector". Second, I wish the "object inspector" had more links to "online help". A good example, is "object inspector" knows I am using the os package. When I call os.path.abspath, I get immediate help on the member *but* what I am usually after is another member of *os.path*. It would be super awesome at this point to simply have a link to os.path and os from the "object inspector". What an excellent way to re/familiarize oneself with well documented but unknown or foggy code. I believe learning is an absolute and critical personal attribute to writing better code. I just wish the learning part didn't take me out of the fun or heat-of-the-moment coding. Spyder is very promising with this and I love it for that very reason alone. I just hope it get's better, more automatic, in sight but out of the way so I can code right the very time every time. Damn, I hope someone is listening. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spyderlib/-/khR3Ipetj9kJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en.
