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F1 for help does not work in Positron Visual Editor Mode #817

@SamEdwardes

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@SamEdwardes

In Positron, when you press F1, if the text under your cursor is a function, Positron will show you the help for that function. When editing a Quarto document in visual mode, F1 does not trigger help.

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Running Positron in Workbench Posit Workbench 2025.11.0-daily+85.pro1, “Apple Blossom” (ecf3c5c2).

Positron Version: 2025.09.0 build 119
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 77e07108634cbd2c41201c8e16cc94e55f85ab87
Date: 2025-08-26T15:52:53.196Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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