How to Replace Qt Creator Help Using CLion

Name: How to Replace Qt Creator Using CLion
Uploaded: 2026-05-11T09:00:00+00:00
Channel: Jesper K. Pedersen
Description: F1 does not get you to the help for a given Qt class in CLion as it does in Qt Creator, so how do you get there? Jesper explains his get-around and asks for your help with a bug report.

Jesper K. Pedersen

11 May 2026

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Disclaimer: This reflects CLion at the time of recording. New versions might be different.

F1 does not get you to the help for a given Qt class in CLion as it does in Qt Creator, so how do you get there?

Jesper explains his get-around and asks for your help with a bug report.

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome, and why we can't use Qt Assistant

01:21 Search on the web

Links:

Bug report to get access to word under caret: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-179196/Add-built-in-macro-to-get-a-word-under-the-caret
All the CLion videos in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CJYn40gN6i3lJ1pDCQacn8WaIsyhbcf

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Jesper K. Pedersen

HR Director / COO

Jesper K. Pedersen – COO/HR director at KDAB. Jesper has actively developed with Qt since 1998 and, despite his fancy title, still does so.

He has held almost 100 training classes in Qt since 2000. Today, his greatest claim to fame is the QML youtube series and more recently his youtube series called Qt Widgets and More.

How to Replace Qt Creator Help Using CLion

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