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by tsimionescu 1740 days ago
No matter how smart the tool is, unless it can see the definition of the function, it can't guess the parameter name. Code is often shared on mail, chat programs etc, requring me to send compilable code snippets to get nice presentation out of a blob of text would be significant overkill...
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fxtentacle 1739 days ago
Your IDE could automatically add those annotations as rich text or embedded HTML when you copy the source code out from the IDE into the E-Mail.
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tsimionescu 1738 days ago
Would it be rich text when I copy to WordPad and HTML when I copy to a web page? Would it also support Markdown and maybe wiki ML? Would IntelliJ know that when I'm pasting code to an Emacs buffer in java-mode it should paste plain text, but when I'm pasting to an Emacs buffer that is an email, it should instead add org-mode annotations?

Overall this concept of copy/pasting with context is nice, but it only works for applications that have a defined API between them, such as MS Office OLE objects. In all other cases, pasting plain text is better than any "smart" solution.

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