How to disable function documentation pop-up

[seananderson]

Hello, thanks for all the work developing Positron!

One thing that's driving me crazy is I can't figure out how to disable these documentation pop-up/hint windows when I type a function name. It's less of a problem in the text editor pane because it tends to avoid where I'm typing (although I still find it distracting), but in the console, if I'm not near the top of the window, it looks like the following and it covers up what I'm typing:

Note my cursor and the text plot is hidden by the pop-up.

I've tried

"editor.parameterHints.enabled": false

but that doesn't seem to affect it.

Is there an option to disable these pop-ups? Or at least some way to avoid them covering what I'm typing?

I'm using:

Positron Version: 2025.02.0 (Universal) build 137
Code - OSS Version: 1.96.0
Commit: f4b7966cfa58aa954daafddfe04297e9f3680412
Date: 2025-01-30T15:14:42.529Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.2.0

R 4.4.2

Thanks!

[juliasilge]

We have something very similar tracked in #4109 and honestly the experience is quite bad on Windows, even worse than macOS.

These popups are called "hover" and as a workaround until we figure out these gigantic disruptive hovers, look for these settings and either make the timeout longer or try turning off altogether:

Please let us know if you are not able to use these settings to mitigate this problem!

[seananderson]

Thanks for the response! Good to know "hover" is the keyword. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, these hover options don't stop the gigantic hovers from appearing. I would expect this to be the main option:

  "editor.hover.enabled": false

But that doesn't seem to stop them. I also tried throwing the kitchen sink at it:

  "editor.hover.enabled": false,
  "workbench.hover.delay": 15000,
  "accessibility.verbosity.hover": false,
  "editor.hover.delay": 3000,
  "editor.hover.hidingDelay": 3000,
  "editor.hover.sticky": false,

but no luck as far as I can tell (in the editor or the console).

Good to know it's on the team's radar. I'll follow that issue.

[juliasilge]

I just played around with this a bit, and I think that possibly you have by accident clicked somewhere that makes Positron think you always want these.

If I type plot and wait a sec, I see this set of suggestions; note the arrow here on the line I have highlighted:

If I click on that arrow, I get the giant function hover help, like this:

And now I see the giant hover help all the time for all suggestions!!! 😱 (I only discovered this behavior just now.)

If while I have one of these up, I then close the giant function hover help:

Then afterwards they don't show up anymore. I think this behavior is persistent but toggles on/off depending on if you have clicked on that line vs. closed the big hover.

Can you try this out and see if you see the same?

[seananderson]

That's it! Indeed, that fixes it. I don't remember clicking the expansion button, but who knows. Thanks!