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How to keep a PMD tooltip displayed in Intellij IDEA?

I'm using the PMDPlugin (version 1.8.3) with Intellij IDEA Ultimate 2017.3.

After running PMD, hovering the mouse over a line in the PMD pane displays additional information in a tooltip with a yellow background. See the screenshot below for an example.

The problem is that the tooltip disappears after about two seconds. Selecting (clicking) the line first makes no difference; the tooltip still disappears.

I'd like the tooltip to remain displayed for more than a couple of seconds. Is there any way to configure tooltips to become "sticky", or adjust their lifetime in Intellij IDEA, or is this just a feature/limitation of the PMDPlugin?

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Solution

  • There is no such setting. Neither in PMD plugin or in IntelliJ IDEA currently. In IDEA you can set just initial delay before showing tooltips but not the duration.

    The easiest way of reading details on the issue instead of tooltip is right clicking the issue and selecting 'Details'

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    It will redirect you to the webpage describing the type issue and the reasoning behind why it is bad, such as here:

    https://pmd.github.io/pmd-5.8.1/pmd-java/rules/java/design.html#UseUtilityClass

    Compared to the tooltip there is even more information about the issue such as detailed code samples.