Scala Eclipse plugin doesn't show mouse hover documentation

Question

I just installed the Scala IDE Eclipse plugin with a fresh install of Eclipse Indigo. I followed the getting started youtube video on the scala-ide.org main page on a fresh installation of Indigo. Instead of showing the complete documentation for the String Java class, it shows "type String = String"

I did notice incidentally by looking at the project properties, that in the scala-library.jar and others in the project, under "javadoc location," they show "(None) - non modifiable." I'm not sure if this is the problem, or if the Scala editor gets its documentation somewhere else.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or figured out how to fix it? Thanks!

Answer 1

In addition to the bug that you've raised (Mouse hover doesn't show documentation), there are the following issues:

1. Hovering on a type should show its javadoc
2. Javadoc view regression

As you can see, the issue is a real bug, so there aren't any workarounds at the minute. Sorry.

You could always fix it if you like :-)

Answer 2

So there are updates to this question The issues stated above are fixed in the latest release.

Hovering on type should show fix

Scaladoc integration with code completion

Please use the latest release of ScalaIDE(post 3.0.4-211) to work with them