I am on Windows 11: with Strawberry Perl

I have been trying to get this working on JetBrains IntelliJ with an extension and with Microsoft Visual Code with extensions. (Apparently the Perl Language Server has issues running in Windows. At least from the documentation I found, it recommends running it all i the WSL2)

In some langues the code editor can offer you guidance with what parameters a function may want

So if I type in

lc <$string> DBI->connect($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr); DBI->connect($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr);

DBI-> (I would like a guide here to show me what functions and what not available)

DBi->Connect(

It would show DBI->connect($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr); For instance

Now JetBrains if I control click on an object or function it pulls up the sourcecode (I think) for it in a new editor window. This is helpful but far more intrusive and slow.

I would expect an argument may be that it is difficult with Perl to know exactly how many parameters a function can take. I can see that. However in Perl documentation there are usually a few example shown. Even linking those would be great.

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