How to trigger documentation popup in vscode

Robert Zaremba picture Robert Zaremba · Nov 23, 2017 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

How to trigger a popup with documentation for identifier under the cursor? Normally it appears when hovering the identifier using the mouse pointer: enter image description here

I would like to achieve this effect using a command or keyboard shortcut.

The only related commands I found are: trigger completion (which doesn't show the function doc) and trigger parameters hint (which only works when the cursor is inside function call - parameters list).

Answer

Matt Bierner picture Matt Bierner · Nov 27, 2017

This is the editor.action.showHover command. It is bound to cmdk cmdi by default.

Note: Shortcut works by holding down the cmd [ctrl in windows], then while holding press k then i

You can change the keyboard shortcut with a keybinding such as:

{
    "key": "cmd+k ctrl+space",
    "command": "editor.action.showHover",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
}