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Infoview tooltips should render their contents as markdown

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, markdown, neovim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by comparing the built-in LSP hover handler, which renders hover popups as markdown, with the custom infoview popups used for tooltips. Trace the infoview tooltip popup entry point and make the rendered contents match the markdown behavior shown in the issue screenshots.

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Description

bug

The built-in LSP hover handler properly renders hover popups as markdown, e.g.:

Screenshot 2024-01-14 at 10 07 13 AM

But our custom popups in the infoview (for tooltips) do not, see e.g.:

Screenshot 2024-01-14 at 10 07 58 AM

Dominant language
Lua
Stars
607
Forks
63
Avg merge
1d 8h
Merged PRs (30d)
8

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