Simplifying Editor

[LuisLauM]

I have been trying to get used to Positron for about 5 months now (I come from RStudio), but to this day I cannot simplify the editor as I used to use it in RStudio. To date, I can't find the options to:

• Disable word highlighting (functions, object names, etc.): Every time the cursor is over a word, my code lights up like a Christmas tree and it is very distracting.
• Disable showing help when the cursor hovers over a function: I know this is useful when one is working with a function, but I would like it to only show when I want it to and not automatically.
• Prevent parentheses from being generated automatically after autocompleting a function: I know this may be useful for many, but I am already used to do it manually, and it is especially annoying when I just want to autocomplete the name inside a function like apply.

Surely the handling of all these options are available somewhere in Settings, but try as I might I can't seem to find the right switches, or at least those options that seem to handle this don't immediately apply to the active Editor tab.

I would be very grateful if someone could let me know if they have managed to solve any of these problems.

Here is an example: to turn off the highlighting, I assumed it was through the editor.selectionHighlight option (set as false), but even when it is turned off, the repeated words are still highlighted:

[LuisLauM]

It had not occurred to me to ask ChatGPT, so I leave the solution for two of the 3 problems:

• The first one is solved by changing these two parameters at the same time: editor.selectionHighlight: false,
  editor.occurrencesHighlight: false

• For the second one, the controlling parameter is: editor.hover.enabled: false

For the third problem (of automatic insertion of parentheses after autocompleting a function) I can't find a solution yet, I'll keep looking.

[jennybc]

The ability to completely turn off automatic parentheses is tracked in #5377.

We do maintain a list of functions inside of which we never add automatic parentheses, because it is likely to be a function value vs. call. apply() is currently not on it. There's an existing issue or issue comment (can't put my hands on it at this moment) about expanding the settings where we suppress the parentheses, based on argument names. If we can't find that issue, we could open one to collect more scenarios where folks would like to suppress parentheses.