Show tooltip bellow the mouse cursor, instead of above it

[evandrocoan]

• VSCode Version: 1.14.1
• OS Version: Windows 10 build 15063

Help tool tip should be placed bellow the mouse cursor on the settings.json file, instead of above item. For me it is horribly confusing putting it above it, beyond blocking my vision, as I read what is above my mouse cursor, not bellow it. Perhaps a setting to configure this behavior.

• The mouse cursor is where the big red arrow is pointing.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open the settings.json
2. Place the cursor in of of the settings

Reproduces without extensions: Yes/No

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Related threads:

1. Disable tooltip hint in Visual Studio Code

[rebornix]

We don't have a setting for this while we decide where to show the hover internally, for example, if you hover on code in the first line and there is no space above the cursor then we show the hover below the line.

[evandrocoan]

But internally you prefer to show them above. For example, if the space both above and bellow are available, you decide for above. This is really annoying, and is the opposite for other editors as Sublime Text, which favors to show bellow:

Most my vision is focused on what is above of the cursors, so favoring it to show above simply blocks my vision field. Hence would be very welcome this issue be a enhancement setting for the internal algorithm to favor bellow the cursor:

, over the above the cursor:

[rebornix]

Reopen this and see ppl's feedback on this. @evandrocoan Thank you for your patience and detailed info.

[ahaswell]

Wholeheartedly agree. Its extremely frustrating having the previous 4 lines of code obscured by the tooltips when it could just be placed below where Im typing in the empty space. Please allow us to choose above of below at the very least! cheers!

[a-heryani]

I completely agree. This is annoying as hell. Blocks my view of the code lines above. I need to see those. I don't care what is below. Having to move the cursor away just so that I can see what I have written above is poor UX

[jaymcgrath]

VS code is awesome, thanks to the contributors for all your work!

That said,these tool tips are driving me nuts! I've never been bothered by intellisense before, and I actually rely on it, so I don't want to turn it off. Like most other people have said, showing tips above the line makes it hard to tell what I'm doing.

[fengyuentau]

Do we have a solution for this now? Showing tooltip above the cursor does block my view of code lines above. Though tooltip is useful, I still have to turn it off since I found no way to make it show below the cursor. To turn off this, open User Settings and add the following line:

"editor.parameterHints": false