Ability to follow links to symbols in Quick Documentation

[harry-xm]

Expected behavior

In GoLand and intellij-rust, links to other symbols can be clicked to jump to their documentation in place in the Quick Documentation popup.

Actual behavior

With LSP4IJ and the respective official language servers, either the language server converts symbol references to URLs (e.g. rust-analyzer) and forces the user to leave the IDE for a browser, or the text in comments is displayed as is and is not clickable.

Besides, in a project that is private or not published to crates.io, generated links like https://docs.rs/pingora-lru/0.3.0/pingora_lru/struct.Lru.html would not be accessible.

Question

What can I do to implement symbol links in Quick Documentation properly and allow users to stay within the IDE?

[angelozerr]

If documentation of rust-analyzer reports markdown url (see issue at #376) is it good for you?

[harry-xm]

You mean a file link? I'm expecting jump to documentation in place, not jump to source code.

[angelozerr]

Oh I see now what you want. Today click on http link open a Web Browser.

You want to open the http link to a the Quick Documentation. I'm using a BrowerUtil from IJ,so perhaps it exists a settings in IJ to open the http page in the Quick documentation?

[harry-xm]

No, I don't really want an embedded browser. Maybe a screen recording will give you a better idea of what I mean:

Screen.Recording.2024-0.mp4

This combined with the Jump to Source button in the bottom right corner is the IntelliJ-native user experience that I would like to reproduce in LSP4IJ.

[angelozerr]

Ok thanks for your demo. I have no idea how to implement that. Please create an issue for that.