Hi Carlos, I thank you very much for your contributions. Both the "Object Inspector" and "Online help" address critical concern regarding any IDE, the fact that no one is perfect and an immediate help facility is always crucial. Thank you again.
The Ctrl + I shortcut works very well. There is still that wish for less interaction, more automatic behaviour. It would be extra nice to get this within the argument signature of a callable or from outside of the closing parenthesis. Another thing realized is, why are only callables inspected? Wouldn't it be good to know os.sep, os.name, re.LOCALE, and the kabillion other static values? Carlos, you're on the right track and I sincerely appreciate your time and I would really like to know more about your plans for OI. Thank you Carlos On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:54:34 PM UTC-4, Carlos Córdoba wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm really happy you liked the object inspector because it represents my > main contribution to the project. My comments to your suggestions are > below. > > El 26/03/12 15:23, vbgunz escribió: > > 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". > > We have the keyboard shortcut CTRL + I that let let you send any object > on the editor or the console to the object inspector. Unfortunately it's > not well known but it works like this: if you write 'range' (for > example) and hit CTRL + I you will immediately get its docstring on the > object inspector. This also works if you put the cursor at the end of > the any object you want to inspect. If you have any doubts about how it > works, please let me know. > > > 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 know exactly what you mean and there is definitely room for > improvement here. The idea is to show online help for standard lib > objects because their docstrings are not that good. I have some ideas on > how to do it, it's not going to be easy but I maybe I could have it > ready for 2.2. > > > 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. > > I totally agree with you and that's why I'm improving the object > inspector the best that I can. I have lots of ideas that I plan to > implement on the next two or three releases. > > Cheers, > Carlos > > > 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. > > -- 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/-/tHkSLSPZU_gJ. 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.
