posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Adapter: "Help on hover" placement needs to be reset after each request
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Description
It seems like the placement in the hover pop up is retained from one request to another, so you don't start at the top of the document each time.
https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/assets/19150088/7de15df2-a904-4208-a7cd-d4d0729defb5
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the retained placement in the Help on hover popup, using the linked video as the behavioral reference. Trace the TypeScript hover request and popup entry points to find where placement persists between requests; done means each new request begins at the top of the document.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100