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Info is just a Hover Away

Posted on September 29, 2021

TLDR:

If you hover over your code in Understand it will tell you about what you are hovering over. This article shows examples but is not comprehensive by any means!

Details:

Note: I’m using C here, but this works for any language we support.

Hover over a function:

Hover over a function to get its signature.

Hover over an include to see the full path to the file being included:

Full path as resolved by the pre-processor (in C/C++ languages)

Hover over a macro to see it’s value at that point in the code:

The hover text is the value of the macro at that point in the code, as fully expanded by the pre-processor

Hover over a variable and see what type it is:

Hover over an enum and see it’s value:

Hover over a global object and you’ll see it’s latest assignment:

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