mucho ++ for all this work especially the proposal to make the mapping available outside of padre.

I think the tooltips might be very useful for beginners although I would prefer the opportunity to turn them off - or indeed back on again!

Deciding what are the most common uses of a function will make much more work than 'simply' extracting the function name and parameter list from the pod documentation, but it might be effective in the first instance.

However, short forms might also lure the lazy into a false sense of security, so do you plan to provide the short form and the full form or just the short form?

How would you indicate this is a short list and not the full list?

An advanced user might want to always get the full list of parameters

I think it would be good to have the capability for the standard modules too but this may confuse beginners when they expect the data to be there for non-standard modules. This may give rise to much noise.

Lots of +++ to your karma