Documentation keeps popping up
1. The problem you're facing
Whenever I type something, annoying documentation keeps popping up which is very unhelpful.
2. What is currently happening
Someone thought it made sense to show live documentation based on text you're typing. So for example when I am typing the word
index to declare a simple variable for a loop, I see a popup with documentation for input by the time I've typed in and IndexError when I reach ind. Not only is this terrible UX it's actually also slowing down the UI making the whole thing feel laggy and clunky.
3. What you expect to happen
I expect this to be removed because to me it makes zero sense to have this feature. What's more baffling is that when I actually am calling a function / method / constructor I don't see any documentation which at least would make some sense. There I need to repeatedly hover over the name to view the documentation.
But assuming completely removing it gets some pushback, likely from whoever came up with this in the first place, maybe at least add a setting to disable it.4 Replies
Someone will reply to you shortly. In the meantime, this might help:
hey, have you tried disabling the Autocomplete in settings?
Click on settings icon (top right) -> User Settings -> Editor page.
I also feel the pain with docs not appearing in certain function/methods. I'll leave it to Myles/Akshay to comment on that.
No and I don't want to either. I do want autocomplete, I just don't want to see a documentation popup show up on every keystroke.
There are maybe some improvements we can make in the short term, but longer term we plan to add a LSP which should give more accurate and improved tooltip hints instead of our half-baked-lsp that we currently built