Possible to view method / function docs in NetBean

Question

NetBeans 6.5 with Python support provides the docstring documentation for a function/method in a popup when auto-completing, but is there another way to view docstrings?

Perhaps achieved by mousing over a function/method name, or clicking somewhere?

The best I can seem to do is "Go to source" in the right-click menu.

Answer 1

You can also use this keyboard shortcut on Mac. Shift + Meta + Backslash

Answer 2

I received the following answer from Tor Norbye at Sun:

Hold the ctrl key (or Cmd on Mac) and then hover.

Also, Ctrl-Shift-Space (e.g. code completion + shift) will display -just- the completion doc (which means it doesn't just look at the prefix of the caret, but the whole identifier and left hand side type if it can resolve it, to compute one specific match rather than many).

Answer 3

You may be referring to the function Show Documentation Popup in Netbeans

Try

Ctrl+Shift+SPACE or

Ctrl+Shift+BACK_SLASH

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