Comment by brabel

It annoys me a lot as well, though it took me a couple of minutes to turn off the popups.

Once you've done that, it's similar to emacs for me, everything has to be evoked via a shortcut (or Action Palette which works very well in VS Code). The shortcut to show "help" or "docs" is Cmd+K Cmd+I, by the way - easy to type and remember...