` on an incomplete function call like
```julia-auto
julia> f(x,
```
I seem get all docstrings for `f`. This includes docstrings for `f()` and those where the type of `x` doesn’t match. Is this intended?
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### Author:  [@PatrickHaecker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PatrickHaecker)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-terminalpager-jl-repl-inline-help-added/133131/37 "2025-10-24T04:53:50Z")
> [@matthias314](#):
>
> This includes docstrings for `f()` and those where the type of `x` doesn’t match. Is this intended?
This is why I love working with the Julia community! You think you have a _good_ feature and after a lot of clever ideas and questions from the community (as we have already seen so many in this thread), you realize that you could actually have a _great_ feature when you implement all the ideas coming out of this exchange.
To answer your question: Yes, it is intended in the sense that as far as I know no one has thought about it, yet. Actually, I didn’t even remember, that in REPL’s help mode, you can write the method instead of the function and then the output only contains help for the specific method and not all methods of the function:
```julia
julia> a = 'c'
'c': ASCII/Unicode U+0063 (category Ll: Letter, lowercase)
julia> b = "abc"
"abc"
help?> findfirst(a, b)
findfirst(ch::AbstractChar, string::AbstractString)
[…]
```
It would be really great if this could be extended to partial argument lists of callables, so thanks for the suggestion, @matthias314! I created a [PR](https://github.com/ronisbr/TerminalPager.jl/issues/72) to track it.
As much as I’d like to have this feature, this might be some work to implement. Currently, the inline help partially reuses REPL’s help functionality if I got this right, which only supports complete function calls according to my short tests. So ideally, this feature would be implemented in the REPL itself to avoid code duplication and as it would be valuable there, too.
Maybe the REPL already supports it and I just don’t know how to use it there, or the solution of the VSCode plugin can be reused or there is a different package with such functionality.
Does anyone know whether such a logic already exists in the Julia ecosystem?
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### Author:  [@\_bernhard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/_bernhard)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-terminalpager-jl-repl-inline-help-added/133131/38 "2025-10-24T10:06:13Z")
For what it’s worth - on my german keyboard macbook I have set the right option key to input unicode characters since for all the characters I type in the terminal (@{}|) I do so using the right opt key.
This allows me to send escape sequences via the left opt key (by setting ‘use left opt as meta’ or equivalent in the settings of the terminal emulator).
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### Author:  [@matthias314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/matthias314)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-terminalpager-jl-repl-inline-help-added/133131/39 "2025-10-24T12:46:54Z")
> [@PatrickHaecker](#):
>
> Does anyone know whether such a logic already exists in the Julia ecosystem?
TAB completion in the REPL has this:
```julia-auto
julia> f(x) = 1; f(x::Int, y) = 2; f(x, y, z) = 3;
julia> f('a', # press
f(x, y, z) @ Main REPL[1]:1
f(x) @ Main REPL[1]:1
```
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### Author:  [@PatrickHaecker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PatrickHaecker)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-terminalpager-jl-repl-inline-help-added/133131/40 "2025-10-24T13:38:57Z")
This is interesting. Especially, as it could be improved, as only the third method seems plausible after the comma has been entered.
I think we could filter the method table with the information we already have from the incomplete argument tuple. However, in general we will have ambiguities here, even if the complete argument tuple, aka multiple dispatch, does not have ambiguities. Therefore, we would need to filter the help to a subset of the possible entries. We know how to show the docstring of all methods and we know how to show the docstring of a specific method, but how to display the help of a non-singleton true subset of all methods?
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