On cmd/ctrl+struct hover popup definition.

[Nitecon]

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• What are you trying to do?
  Improve the overall user experience by adjusting the plugin workflow to better suite a rapid development environment for the user.
• What would you expect to happen?
  When a user holds control/cmd and hovers over a function it generates a popup with the definition of the function. To improve the UX you should be able to also inspect a struct by hovering over it. Currently you can get similar functionality by placing the cursor over the struct and using Alt+Space which will bring up the "Quick Definition" popup. To streamline the user experience the user should be able to hover over both functions / structs etc to get a popup definition without having to switch the cursor from the current typing position in order to inspect the struct.
• What happens?
  Currently CMD/CTRL+hover only generates a popup that shows "type Somestruct" which requires the user to switch the location of the cursor to the struct and then hit key combo alt+space in order to get the same functionality as that of function definitions.

The issue is related to user experience and is not tied directly to the execution of the plugin but rather the human behavioral assumption of where functions should be. The example below shows an example of what should be available when hovering over a struct.

[dlsniper]

Hi,

Thank you for opening this.
Is it somehow equivalent / an extension to this: #2039 ?
Thanks.

[Nitecon]

Issue #2039 is similar in nature, when hovering over a struct it should produce a "quick definition" (alt+space). The member documentation is generally only useful once you interact with with the members during struct initialization.

From an UX perspective it's important to not have the user switch context / move focus from the current point if they don't need to. Moving the caret from the current typing location to place it over an existing struct only to hit Alt+Space, not only breaks your concentration but requires a different keyboard combo than that of "quick definition" of functions (CTRL+hover). Finally it also interrupts active typing as you would now have to move the caret back to the original typing location to continue typing.

As an example of this behavior both vscode go plugin (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go) and some others show this behaviour and the benefits of not having to move concentration / caret from active typing location.

One additional benefit to this is that when you are CTRL+Hovering over a struct and you see a need to make a modification to the struct on something that was missed you now only need to click and be in the file at definition to make the change, which is a great user experience.