[CLOSED] Adding Code Hints Description Box for handling additional hint information in LSP

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Issue by shubhsnov
Thursday Apr 11, 2019 at 15:06 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#14696

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LSP allows a server to serve additional information about a completionItem(hint) upon explicit request.
This additional information can be quite large, and doesn't sit nicely with the current UI where all the extra information is shown inline as the element is highlighted.

Current UI:

New UI:

ping@swmitra@narayani28 for review

This feature will be enabled on request through "enableDescription" option in the hints response. The provider can then subsequently create any html and render in the description box through the updateHintDescription interface in the provider.

See this and this for reference.

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shubhsnov included the following code: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/pull/14696/commits

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Comment by narayani28
Monday Apr 15, 2019 at 04:00 GMT

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LGTM