Allow an option to only show hovers if a shortcut key is down

[eamodio]

Issue Type

Feature Request

Description

I've been seeing more and more people complain about the hovers, and honestly at times they are getting in my way as well. It might be nice if there was an option to only show hovers if you hold down a key (Ctrl/Alt/etc), so that way moving around won't cause hovers unless you want them. If something like this was to be added, debugging should be considered a separate mode from editing.

VS Code Info

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.21.0-insider (936b796, 2018-02-16T05:15:47.029Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17101

[n8crwlr]

I would like it to 👍

[n8crwlr]

Just realized that hover means hovering linter messages, too. That's bad.

[scscgit]

Bump, I was also searching for this issue (of being unable to enable Hover: Sticky only temporarily instead of having it forced either always or never), but couldn't find it due to a lack of keywords within issue description; it's a setting "editor.hover.sticky": true which only lets you permanently disable the annoying default behaviour. I hope we can already have something similar implemented after having the issue open for over 2 years; I believe this is a huge oversight, as approximately 99% of the time the user doesn't really want to interact with a hover in any way, and when they do, holding a modifier like Ctrl; or even just pressing it, or doing anything else really, definitely wouldn't hurt most people (as a default behaviour that can be changed to a current one), yet now even a simple action of moving a mouse over the code repeatedly causes blind spots to be created, so you have to always move the cursor far away, and then be always quick enough without parking the mouse in any spot. If this was indeed by design, can you please provide us with any user testing statistics where people found this behaviour helpful instead of annoying? There was also a similar attempt to suggest an alternative solution of only making tooltips sticky if they support some action at #81181, though I'd much rather also keep other options of the interaction, like copying text from the tooltip. Btw. I'd suggest that a small hint like [CTRL to interact] could be displayed in the tooltip corner by default.

[alexdima]

Let's continue tracking in #15667