Too many pop-up tooltips

Answered

Guys,

I know there have been previous comments in this forum about PyCharm / IntelliJ having too many tooltips, and there are some feature requests which have been sitting idle for nearly a decade here... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-114803?_ga=2.259297545.20546352.1611579844-2023248541.1557333475

But you really need to do something about this.

In PyCharm, if I hover over an "import" statement in my code, half my screen is taken up with a tooltip explaining what the import statement does. I think most Python developers know what the import statement does. They're probably trying to hover over it in order to edit their code, so having their code disappear beneath an enormous tooltip is a pretty rubbish user experience.

Likewise, in PyCharm, if I hover over the docstring at the top of a source file, I get an enormous tooltip with information about the file. Actually trying to edit the docstring is a complete nightmare, because every time the mouse moves a pixel, the pop-up reappears over the top of what I'm trying to type.

Even a simple toggle-switch to disable pop-ups would be a step forward...

0
1 comment

Hi,

Sounds like you have Settings/Preferences | Editor | Code Editing | Show quick documentation on mouse move enabled. Is that the case?

Also, the ticket you mentioned is closed as Fixed.

0

Please sign in to leave a comment.