Manual hover no longer closes on Esc or click outside

[rthrfrd]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Don't know
Without extensions there are no hovers, so it would not be possible to reproduce it.

• VS Code Version: 1.96.0
• OS Version: macOS 14.7

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Disable hover on mouseover (via editor.hover.enabled).
2. Bind a shortcut to show the hover (via editor.action.showHover).
3. Place your cursor in a symbol in your code and press your shortcut to display the hover.
4. Hit Escape - or click away outside of the hover: The hover will not close.

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Notes:

• This could be solved by the user if there was a corresponding editor.action.closeHover shortcut that could be bound to Escape, but the click-out functionality would still be broken.
• Changing editor.hover.sticky seems to have no effect on the issue.
• Focusing the hover and then pressing Escape will close it.

[synalice]

Was just about to create an issue about that. Exactly my problem. Something changed with a new update...

I now have to press the shortcut to show the hover twice (once to show it, twice to focus). This completely broke my workflow :(

[synalice]

One possible solution could have been using runCommands (built-in command as of v1.77):

"key": "ctrl+k ctrl+i`",
"command": "runCommands",
"args": {
    "commands": [
        "editor.action.showHover",
        "editor.action.showHover",
    ]
}

Unfortunately, this doesn't work...

[rthrfrd]

Oh I just saw your PR #236203 @aiday-mar and it looks like #235979 is basically the same issue with a different path in - sorry didn't see that one - you can probably just close this one!

[aiday-mar]

Hi @rthrfrd yes thank you for filing this issue. That is right, I will close this issue.