Hover tips interfere with editor text selection

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Problem Description

The hover hints interfere with highlighting text.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Activate a hover
2. Click and drag to highlight
3. Can’t see the highlighting

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I think that if the hover windows disapapere if the user clicks in the editor that would be one way to solve it

Versions

• Spyder version: master
• Python version: 3.7.3 64-bit
• Qt version: Qt 5.9.6
• PyQt version: PyQt5 5.9.2
• Operating System name/version: Linux

Dependencies

PASTE DEPENDENCIES HERE

cloudpickle >=0.5.0 : 1.2.1 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.4.2 (OK) qtconsole >=4.6.0 : 4.6.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 5.5.0 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 2.1.2 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 2.3.1 (OK) psutil >=0.3 : 5.6.3 (OK) qtawesome >=0.5.7 : 0.5.7 (OK) qtpy >=1.5.0 : 1.9.0 (OK) pickleshare >=0.4 : 0.7.5 (OK) zmq >=17 : 18.1.0 (OK) chardet >=2.0.0 : 3.0.4 (OK) numpydoc >=0.6.0 : 0.9.1 (OK) spyder_kernels >=1.8.0;<2.0.0: 1.9.0.dev0 (OK) qdarkstyle >=2.7 : 2.7 (OK) atomicwrites >=1.2.0 : 1.3.0 (OK) diff_match_patch >=20181111 : 20181111 (OK) intervaltree : None (OK) watchdog : None (OK) keyring : None (OK) pexpect >=4.4.0 : 4.7.0 (OK) pympler : None (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.4 (OK) cython >=0.21 : 0.29.13 (OK) IPython >=4.0 : 7.9.0 (OK) matplotlib >=2.0.0 : 3.1.0 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.25.0 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.17.3 (OK) scipy >=0.17.0 : 1.3.1 (OK) pyls >=0.31.0;<0.32.0 : 0.31.1 (OK) xdg >=0.26 : 0.26 (OK) rtree >=0.8.3 : 0.8.3 (OK)

[goanpeca]

I think that if the hover windows disapapere if the user clicks in the editor that would be one way to solve it

I agree that the hover should probably disappear on any key press. This should be a very easy fix.

[goanpeca]

Would it be possible to disable hovers tips while the mouse button is depressed as well?

Absolutely! that is a silly UX :-p this one is probably on me 😆