make hover optional or a key-combo

[nnchang]

Hey, just started using sourcegraph - it's awesome! The hover interaction is a bit annoying though, imo - I'd love to be able to disable it entirely, or make it (like some IDEs) only occur while I'm holding a key like ctrl or cmd.

[chrismwendt]

Hi @nnchang 👋 Glad you like Sourcegraph! What in particular do you find annoying about the hover interactions? Some language servers don't provide tooltip contents often, is that a problem you're experiencing? If the tooltips are useful to you, it would be great to leave them enabled and find a way to make them less annoying.

It looks like it's possible to detect Ctrl/Alt/Meta keys in the browser https://keycode.info/ so there's no technical limitation there.

[nnchang]

hi Chris! I guess what I don't like is really a taste thing; my IDEs and text editors don't have tooltips on hover, and it just strikes me as rather noisy UI as I see tooltips appearing and disappearing as I move my mouse around (this is FF 62.0, fwiw). Perhaps a solution would also be to simply increase the delay before opening the tooltip?

perhaps this gif captures it better:

[chrismwendt]

Perfect, that GIF helps a lot. This has been reported before at sourcegraph/codeintellify#56 (the library that is used for showing tooltips).

[nnchang]

ah, I see! Adding a comment there as well.

[sqs]

Will keep this open because even when we fix
sourcegraph/codeintellify#56, it’s still a valid request to only show the tooltip on click or alt+hover, etc. We will definitely add a setting to control this, it’s just a matter of priority (so anyone else who wants this should +1 it).

Thanks for filing, @nnchang.

[linknum23]

+1

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