Show variable/object graph "preview" menu on hover while debugging

[bakatz]

When I'm debugging a piece of code, I expect to be able to hover over a variable in the code that's running and see the current value, as well as click into the object graph and inspect the structure of the data.

Something like this from VS code:

Today, Zed shows a preview of the value of the variable but the display could be improved. If the structure is complex, the preview goes way off the edge of the screen and is very hard to read.

It requires an extra step today as I need to context switch / go down to the "variables" menu in the debugger pane and look for the variable I'm interested in. This should all be done inline instead.

[ethantheb]

Honestly I'm surprised this wasn't a feature out of the box and it makes the debugger incredibly annoying to use for me. The inline "comment-style" variable state is super busy too, turned it off.

It makes some things completely unreadable:

Whereas in VSCode I can just look through the structure easily:

[Jarrlist]

Yeah, for anyone dealing with an SCons build system, the current UX is an absolut nightmare

Code Can not be read:

And there are about 500+ local variables, so good luck finding them in the Variables tab.

Pretty much had to resort to print debugging.

A bit of a extreme use case, but I'm sure others have problems with this in other environments.
Does anyone know if there is an issue and/or branch for this?

[p-se]

I love zed ❤️ , but I'm missing this feature greatly! I wonder why there aren't more people crying out loud about it. For serious (and comfortable) debugging, I need to switch the IDEs.

[Jarrlist]

it is very hard for me to understand why did was not included in the first debugger release.

Im trying to sell Zed to my colleges, but when they see that this is missing, they laugh in suprise and uninstall it.

I still use it because almost everything else is better then VSCode…

I guess a lot of people using zed never debug anything (webb devs). As a cpp dev I almost always start my programs through the debugger. There should be more noise about this.