Setting hover preferences

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You can use the Hovers preference page to enable and disable source hover help for the Remote C/C++ Editor.

About this task

When you hover over text, the Remote C/C++ Editor supports displaying a hover window to show you how an item is declared within your source code. For example:
Hover help: char* my_string = "this is a test";

Procedure

To set the hover preferences for the Remote C/C++ Editor, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation pane of the Preferences window, double-click the Remote C/C++ node to open the tree of available preference pages.
  2. Double-click the Editor node to open the tree of available preference pages, then click z Systems > Hovers to open the Hovers preference page.
  3. Select the Display source hover check box to have hover help appear, when possible, when you position your mouse over relevant text in the Remote C/C++ Editor.