In my particular situation, function hints are not helpful. However, they are also very disruptive. It seems like every time I start typing a function, a hint pops up, hides what I am trying to read, hides what I just typed, and I have to disrupt my work flow to get rid of it before I can continue.
I understand they are useful and maybe some day I will benefit from them, but for now, is there any way to disable them?
Disabling function hints
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Re: Disabling function hints
I was able to answer my own question. There is no menu item for "disable function hints", the term "autocomplete" is not a good description of a tooltip, but I eventually discovered there is a menu item called "disable autocomplete" that disables function hints. I had been avoiding experimenting with it because I thought "autocomplete" included automatically adding closing brackets, braces, and parentheses, which I want to keep enabled.
It is difficult to find details like this in software documentation. I don't mean that as a criticism of the WeBuilder documentation, which is quite good, but rather as a comment on how hard it is to document complex software in a fashion that makes the documentation easy to use.
To compensate for that, perhaps the next time the software and documentation are revised, it might make sense to stop mentioning "function hints" and only ever mention "autocomplete." It would be easier for users to be successful when we search the documentation trying to deal with configuration questions. When I found the search term "function hints" it took me nowhere.
It is difficult to find details like this in software documentation. I don't mean that as a criticism of the WeBuilder documentation, which is quite good, but rather as a comment on how hard it is to document complex software in a fashion that makes the documentation easy to use.
To compensate for that, perhaps the next time the software and documentation are revised, it might make sense to stop mentioning "function hints" and only ever mention "autocomplete." It would be easier for users to be successful when we search the documentation trying to deal with configuration questions. When I found the search term "function hints" it took me nowhere.
Re: Disabling function hints
I'll suggest that some improvements regarding function hints in documentation are desirable, thanks!
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