C# IntelliSense Hints are unreadable (new lines are missing)

[marekadamczyk]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.8.0 (38746938a4ab94f2f57d9e1309c51fd6fb37553d, 2016-12-13T17:45:32.595Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14393
• Extensions:

Extension	Author	Version
csharp	ms-vscode	1.5.3
mono-debug	ms-vscode	0.12.0
unity-debug	Unity	1.1.0

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open any C# project containing sln and csproj file so full IntelliSense will be working.
2. Hover your mouse over any function containing C# XML Comments with summary, more than one parameter, and return tags.

Below example code and the IntelliSense hint containing parsed XML documentation. If it contains more than one tag (ex. few function parameters + returns) all are displayed in one line therefore it is unreadable. It seems that new lines are missing between <param> and <returns> tags.

[marekadamczyk]

Hi, any news on the issue?

[DustinCampbell]

@filipw: Looking at omnisharp-roslyn, I see some weird code related to this. It appears that both the IntelliSenseService and TypeLookupService pass FormattingOptions.NewLine to the DocumentConverter. Any idea why we do that? Is there any reason that DocumentConverter shouldn't just use Environment.NewLine?

[filipw]

it's a leftover from the old OmniSharp server - that's how it behaved originally.
Not sure about the root reason though

[DustinCampbell]

the behavior is bad though. Shouldn't we change it?

[DustinCampbell]

it's super bizarre. "Only use line endings like I describe in FormattingOptions, which default to \n".

[DustinCampbell]

It doesn't fix this problem anyway. I'm wondering if there's something deeper in VS Code that's doing weird things here.

[DustinCampbell]

I'll investigate this more for 1.8

[filipw]

"Only use line endings like I describe in FormattingOptions, which default to \n".

🙈

[DustinCampbell]

lol

[akshita31]

This issue has been fixed in the 1.14 milestone. We just released a beta of 1.14 - https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/releases/tag/v1.14.0-beta4. Follow these instructions to install a beta release of C# for VS Code.