Can you recommend an IDE which supports summary using only /// without <summary> tag?

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Hello.
I am using MonoDevelop for code editing, but since MonoDevelop no longer supported in Unity 2018, I am seeking for anew solution.

The problem is that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code support summary only if it have full form, such as:

///


/// Some description
///

In my opinion is too big amount of code. In MonoDevelop I created a lot of descriptions using simple

/// Some description

And I don’t want to convert it in bulky form which required by Visual Studio.

The only IDE which support /// which I found is Jet Brains Rider, but it is not free and not too cheap (30$ month)

Can you recommend an alternative IDE which may suits?

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By support, do you mean so that you can leave summaries? Or that you can leave summaries that show up in your intellisense?

Just doing summary requires a comment block of some sort. And Visual Studio supports all sorts of comment blocks. It just shortcuts /// to auto type

blocks. If you use // it’s just a comment, and you can also do the /* … */ type blocks as well.

It’s just that you won’t get intellisensed lookup of those summaries like that.
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Thanks for reply.
I mean i have a lot of code such as:

/// Amount of things
public int Amount;

And in MonoDevelop, if I will hover cursor over “Amount” I will see its tooltip. But in Visual Studio this tooltip will not be displayed. So I want to find IDE which still will display a tooltip without a necessity to convert all of my code to:

///


/// Amount of things
///
public int Amount;

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So you’re talking about the intellisense, the tooltip.

Yeah. No, you do

for that. That’s just how Visual Studio works.

If you prefer other IDE’s ways, use those IDEs. You can change your preferred IDE in the preferences.

Your other option is to write a plugin for Visual Studio (or Visual Code)… but that’s going to be quite a bit of work. Maybe someone has already written one.
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