feature-request: possibility to change the size of description popup

[feelancer21]

Hello, I am creating a snippet for VS Code with long descriptions. I have noticed that the description popup window in VS Code has a scrollbar, but it would be greater if I can enlarge the window. This seems not to be possible in the current version (1.13.1). It would be better if one can either set the height and width in the preferences or change the size of the popup with mouse dynamically.

Regards steff

[mike-lischke]

I'd like to add that wrapping in the popup is also a problem and should be avoided (overflow should be horizontally scrollable).

[ramya-rao-a]

cc @Microsoft/vscode for thoughts

[stevencl]

It seems like the problem is that to read long descriptions, you need to scroll. One way to solve that problem without requiring intervention from the user would be to resize the popup dynamically based on the content it needs to display. If we were able to do this, we could make long descriptions more readable without requiring the user to either scroll through the description or to drag out the size of the window to make the content more readable. We currently set the height dynamically, perhaps we could also look at dynamically altering the width to accommodate larger content?

While there would probably still be cases where there simply isn't enough room to show all of the content this would be the preferable solution for me since it allows most users to keep their hand on the keyboard and means that we don't need to worry about what to do with the popup after the user has resized it, then dismissed it (do we keep it at that size, even if it is way too big for the next piece of content, what happens then when the user returns to the same content that caused them to resize etc etc).

I also agree that wrapping inside the popup doesn't seem like the right thing to do since it alters the readability of the content. So if resizing the width of the popup still means content is outside of the viewport, we should add a scroll bar as @mike-lischke suggests.

[ramya-rao-a]

The scrollbar solution is worth pursuing

[nsreenath]

Large descriptions that usually come as part of a well documented sample code will be easy to read if we put a button to open the entire description in new tab.

[Raydir]

I'd love to get a possibility to "resize" this window. Prefered solution would be a setting alike "editor.SuggetionsHeigth" and "editor.SuggetionsWidth" which could be set in pixels.