Scrolling hover popup with keyboard

[akshaal]

It's already possible to create a keyboard shortcut to trigger a hover popup window with keyboard.. But mouse is still required to scroll the windows.

[sandy081]

Hmm interesting, I did not know that there is a shortcut to open hover :)

[sandy081]

We never focus hover and any key press or mouse move will hide the hover.

@alexandrudima Moving this to you, let me know if I have to do anything.

[akshaal]

{
        "key": "alt+f1",
        "command": "editor.action.showHover",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
},

Press alt+f1 and notice that the hover is focused.. or at least no key press hide it. But you still can't scroll the content inside.
VSCode 1.31.1

[alexdima]

In 1.31, the action editor.action.showHover focuses the hover.
In (the upcoming) 1.32, the action will not focus the hover.

This change came in via #66827 which tackles #10643

[akshaal]

Ok, I see.. How about a new "editor.action.showHoverFocused" or something like that? And if focused, make it scrollable with keyboard.

[alexdreptu]

@alexandrudima in 1.32 editor.action.showHover doesn't automatically focus the hover but now it also doesn't close with Esc anymore. Is there currently any way to set a key bind for this to happen without using the mouse?

[rbenson]

@alexdreptu the default has been ctrl+k ctrl+i since I have known about it, a year+. Focus has never been given to the pop-up.

[alexdreptu]

@rbenson yes but you could close it using Esc, now there is no way to close it without using the mouse.

[dorian-marchal]

Is their a workaround to scroll the hover tooltip without the mouse, currently?
Maybe there is a way to let it take more space, so the scrolling is not necessary in most cases?

[JUD210]

I can't understand why this topic is abandoned.
Is it impossible or not necessary? hmm...

[JUD210]

As a Keyboard shortcut addictive user, If this feature is added, It would be really enjoyable.
Maybe later my skill goes up, I should contribute.

[hasrthur]

Is there any progress on this?

[stania]

Is there any progress on this?

[anunezmartinez]

Same problem here :(

[bheadwhite]

@alexdima @akshaal @sandy081 ^^ any life or possibilities here?

[kohane27]

It would be very nice (especially for vscodevim users) if vscode adds keyboard shortcut support API for scrolling up and down the content in the hover.

[papey]

I also want this feature, tell me if I can help on something. For now I have configured my keyboard (ErgoDox) to simulate mouse wheel up and down, that's odd.

[Radrahil]

Sure, in 5 years. If only neovim had more plugins...

[THOUSAND-SKY]

Is this something that someone w/ zero knowledge of the vscode code base could fix in reasonable time?

Has anyone looked into the problem? Would definitely need some pointers before even attempting.

[Tantol]

God help us

[SheryConcepts]

I spent 1 hour trying to come with a solution but sadly. I still need to use mouse.

What functionality is used to scroll with mouse? If we can detect that, then we can map that to keybiindings

[SheryConcepts]

There should be some api to jump in and out of "hover widget" when we are in hover widget treat like a normal editor..?????

[milanglacier]

I think there's no bindings for scrolling in the hover window. The hover window is just a widget. VSCode is just a web broswer anyway... So it just listens to mouse event and scrolls... Sheharyar ***@***.***> writes:

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[aiday-mar]

Hi all, thank you all for your patience. A PR will soon be merged to solve this issue, which you may track here: #176057. Thank you all for your participation and we apologize for the development delay.

[heartacker]

can anybody tell me how to use this,
I tap ctrl+k ctrl+i, and nothing changed

[aiday-mar]

Hi @heartacker, thanks for commenting. Are you on VS Code or VS Code Insiders? The feature will come out in the stable build next month but is already available in Insiders.

You may also be experiencing this due to a regression that is fixed here: #176740. Let me know when the new Insiders build of VS Code comes out, by tomorrow, if you are still experiencing issues.

[heartacker]

@aiday-mar thanks and the latest version work now

but there are some questions and suggestion

1. ctrl+k ctrl+i to pin the hover context and tap again, we should unpin the hover. maybe that is great
2. when hover is pin, we tap Esc to exit the hover, but we lost the focus from that word.
3. when editor.action.triggerParameterHints is showed， it doesn't work even we have pinned the hover
4. we could not scroll Horizontally with ← or →

[heartacker]

bother again, :D

1. maybe we could keep the hover pined unless we unpin them. now when we pin the hover and we use mouse to focus another word, the pined-hover disappeared, maybe we should keep the hover pined and easy to show hover-context of another word
2. and a pin/unpin icon to right corner is best. like this ↓
   
3. when hover is pined, the only thing is we can scroll the context, and can we add the ability the copy the text? :), when the hover pined,

• we could use ctrl + ↑ ↓ ← → to move the cursor and use shift + ↑ ↓ ← → to select the text and the we could copy them.
• or we should use ctrl + ↑ ↓ ← → to scroll and the use ↑ ↓ ← → to move cursor,and use shift + ↑ ↓ ← → to select the text and the we could copy them. let the hover act like a readonly editor 😍
• Of course, it would be nice if there was a better solution。

I want to copy that binary string

[benedictSchurwanz]

There is a setting Editor > Hover: Sticky, "Controls whether the hover should remain visible when mouse is moved over it."

Turn that on, and you can move your mouse onto the tooltip, and scroll it.

[heartacker]

There is a setting Editor > Hover: Sticky, "Controls whether the hover should remain visible when mouse is moved over it."

Turn that on, and you can move your mouse onto the tooltip, and scroll it.

no ， that is not my meaning， the situation is that when the hover is pinned and when we use mouse to click other words, the hover still be show and DO be pinned

[rami3l]

Hi there! I'm glad to see this feature landing in the March 2023 update.

However, as I use the vim plugin, I actually use normalModeKeyBindings* in settings.json to control the hover, like so:

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
    {
      "before": ["K"],
      "commands": ["editor.action.showHover"]
    },
]

Now that the description of the command has been changed to Show or Focus Hover, I'd expect hitting K twice will give me the ability to move up/down in the hover, however it seems to me that the hover is never focused...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to report. If needed, I can definitely open a new issue at https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim. (Issue already open at VSCodeVim/Vim#3740.)

[Voronar]

As @heartacker mentioned moving cursor around inside popup and selecting text with it would be very handy.