Viewing Inline Documentation

View documentation for a symbol at caret

• Hover the mouse over the necessary symbol in the editor.

• Place the caret at the symbol and press Ctrl+Q or select View | Quick Documentation from the main menu.

  Press Ctrl+Q again to open this documentation in the Documentation tool window.

• Click in the popup to change the font size, display the quick documentation toolbar, or go to the source code.

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To toggle the focus of the Quick Documentation popup and the Documentation Tool Window, press Ctrl+Q sequentially.

With the default settings, pressing Ctrl+Q (View | Quick Documentation) opens quick documentation in a popup. You can change the settings to view documentation in the tool window.

• In the quick documentation popup, click and disable the Show Documentation Popup First option.

• In the Documentation tool window, click the icon on the tool window toolbar and disable the Show Documentation Popup First option.

Keep documentation in the tool window

You can open a piece of documentation for a specific code element in the tool window and keep viewing documentation for other elements in your current file.

1. Place the caret at the required code element and press Ctrl+Q. If the popup appears, press Ctrl+Q again to switch to the tool window.

   The asterisk symbol (*) on the documentation tab means that the tab is not pinned, so its content will be replaced by documentation for another code element that you select in the editor.

2. Right-click the tab with the documentation in the documentation tool window and enable the Keep This Documentation option.

   After that, the current documentation tab will be pinned. You can return to the editor and view documentation for other code elements that will open either in the popup or in a new tab in the tool window.