Colabtools: Shift + Tab doesn't do docstring lookup

[ajinkyakolhe112]

To see docstring lookup, need to execute with ? instead of easier Shift + Tab as it can be done in Jupyter

[craigcitro]

In colab, shift+tab does outdent.

We support tab completion, too, in two ways:

• if you're in a parenthesis or between arguments (eg after a comma), tab will show you the docstring -- so if you are typing something like print('hello', sep=''), then tab after the paren or between the comma and the next arg will show you the docstring.

• alt+/ will always show (or hide) the docstring.

I'm going to close, but do reopen if either of those aren't working for you at all!

[ajinkyakolhe112]

Shouldn't shortcut to access the docstring be uniform?

[AlcoholV]

In colab, shift+tab does outdent.

We support tab completion, too, in two ways:

• if you're in a parenthesis or between arguments (eg after a comma), tab will show you the docstring -- so if you are typing something like print('hello', sep=''), then tab after the paren or between the comma and the next arg will show you the docstring.
• alt+/ will always show (or hide) the docstring.

I'm going to close, but do reopen if either of those aren't working for you at all!

alt+/ isn't working.

[blois]

We're in the process of rolling out a new engine for the code editor, details can be found at https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/editor_details.ipynb.

In this editor ctrl-shift-space can be used to show the docstring.

Additionally in preferences you can disable automatic completions which will behave more like the previous editor- tab will complete, tab after an open paren will open the docstring. In addition shift-tab will open the docstring, similar to Jupyter Lab.

[MauroCE]

2020 and:

• alt + / doesn't work for me
• shift + tab doesn't work for me

[Emprors]

Same for me
2020 and:

alt + / doesn't work for me
shift + tab doesn't work for me

[blois]

Shift-tab will only work if the 'automatic completions' option is set to 'off' in the settings.

[Programmer1-1]

How do I show the docstring? I am used to using shit+tab in jupyter notebooks. I tried turning off "Automatically trigger code completions" in Settings and shift+tab still doesn't work.

[blois]

ctrl-shift-space is the default for opening the parameter hints, if you are within the brackets of a method invocation.

[Programmer1-1]

It would be good to make it work consistently with Jupyter Notebooks. I don't know how this github thing works, but maybe this can be added to a future update.