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Consider Intellidocs, Intellinizer, Intellipedia, Intellietc... Heh, in here it's called Intellinote.

Intellisense and Calltip features are a wonderful, useful, helpful and beautiful thing. When they work. I hope the following idea is useful and hope this is the place to post it.

The idea is simple. Intellinotes. The basic idea is a pane that changes its contents depending on what word (function, class, etc) you're currently on. It can fire on dot notation, call opening or simply upon placing the cursor over a word. Its that extra bit of help everybody loves.

Here are some examples. You say FUNC. (dot notation) and nothing comes up. Unfortunately this happens. You say FUNC( (and the calltip is useless). This too unfortunately happens. How about giving a developer a real easy shot at documenting some stuff? e.g., whats missing, tips, style guide, links, etc...

Now thats powerful. But! imagine going one step further and making it probably the most powerful feature Komodo may have to date? How? Allowing users to update a central server that houses intellinotes. Imagine users sharing organized knowledge about a given language, framework, etc. It's almost crazy. Someone will have to moderate things...

So how could you make sense of the chaos? Pretty simple. Imagine a pane with the header "My Intellisense". A sub header "LANGUAGE:ABSOLUTEFUNC". You have some ADD / MODIFY / DELETE buttons...

Example

My Intellisense

Python: PROJECT.FUNC

Intellisense Additions: F1, F2, F3

F1, F2 and F3 could have just been added as options to the intellisense menu that drops for PROJECT.FUNC. So, now when the developer types out FUNC and hits the dot, they'll see the new options either added to an already populated intellisense list OR the actual list of only options.

The same thing could happen for calltips.

Example

My Calltips

Python: PROJECT.FUNC

Calltip:function, sequence[, sequence, ...]

Imagine, "Examples", "Company Style Guide", etc. Anyhow, some functions, do not have intellisense or calltips when they should. Developers in language X shouldn't have to know or learn Language Y to help themselves and others in such a scenario. They should quickly write in whats absolutely necessary for the intellisense or calltip, etc and go back to developing their application.

To be honest, this doesn't just go for Komodo but almost any application in the world. Developers of any application should clamor to get feedback and improvements for there product. This small idea is one I hope devs of the Komodo platform will consider taking to the next level somehow. Imagine, a wikipedia type sharing tool where all users document what they can, upload it, it gets moderated either by trusted individuals or the community itself and then is shared back with the community...

heh, could be limitless. Steal this idea. I'm done :)