Jakub Chrzanowski 803a9d3ca8
Docs maintenance (#316)
docs maintenance
2020-09-21 17:15:08 +02:00

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title: Documentation
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To provide different kinds of documentation support, the plugin needs to provide an implementation of the [`DocumentationProvider`](upsource:///platform/analysis-api/src/com/intellij/lang/documentation/DocumentationProvider.java) interface and register it in the `com.intellij.lang.documentationProvider` extension point.
A standard base class for such implementations is available in the class [`AbstractDocumentationProvider`](upsource:///platform/analysis-api/src/com/intellij/lang/documentation/AbstractDocumentationProvider.java).
The `getQuickNavigateInfo()` method returns the text to be displayed when the user holds the mouse over an element with <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> pressed.
When generating complete documentation via `generateDoc()`, use [`DocumentationMarkup`](upsource:///platform/analysis-api/src/com/intellij/lang/documentation/DocumentationMarkup.java) to layout contents (see JavaDoc for details).
**Example**:
[`DocumentationProvider`](upsource:///plugins/properties/src/com/intellij/lang/properties/PropertiesDocumentationProvider.java) for [Properties language plugin](upsource:///plugins/properties/)