Is it possible to expand the documentation for JS?

When in PHP and (for example) placing the cursor on str_repeat and you press Ctrl-Q, you get a nice, concise explanation of the function.
In JavaScript however when you place the cursor on (for example) the methode .length and then press Ctrl-Q you get a "no documentation found".
I wouldn't mind adding all the standard documentation myself, if I knew where to start. If this isn't possible, I'll file a feature request.

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Evert,
JavaScript documentation for most of predefined libraries like ECMAScript, DHTML etc. is not available at the moment. You may get some method signatures at best. Thus filing a feature request for these libraries is a good idea. If you have your own JS code or an external JS library, it depends on what documentation is actually available there.

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Rustam,

Is this feature request filed?

IMO, the documentation for core JavaScript and client-side JavaScript Objects is sorely being missed. Is there a possibility that WebStorm borrows from RubyMine in this case? In Ruby, several library classes are implemented in C and RubyMine maintains an index of "documentation stubs" of those clases in pure Ruby. I really like what RM does here. I would really like WebStorm to pick that up as far as JavaScript (core and client-side) is concerned.

Thanks,
Kedar

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I filed a bug report here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/WI-6235  feel free to comment and add to it. It doesn't seem to have a high priority.

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