Popups in expressions

Version: 1.47.3

Hi,

I’ve noticed that the latest version of n8n is a bit popup happy, showing ‘helpful’ popups when you writing an expression, sometimes completely covering the code that you’re trying to look at.

I really wish I could turn this off. It’s not very helpful at all.

Kind regards,

Jos

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Hi,

Sorry for the tone of the previous message, I was really rather irritated at the time. I still think that it would be nice if you could turn these automatic popups off, like you can do in most professional editors.

Currently I have to switch to “Fixed” in order to edit some of my expressions, but then I lose the live preview, and I also often forget to switch back :slight_smile:

Kind regards,

Jos

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Hi @Jos_van_Uden

I get your frustrations, I have them sometimes as well with these popups.
Shall we convert this to a feature request?

I have passed this on to the team. But a feature request topic never hurts!

Hi Bram,

Sure!

Kind regards,

Jos

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Hi Jos! Can I just quickly ask - is the popup information itself useful and timely with the placement being off, or is the entire feature useless to you? Thanks

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Hi,

It’s mostly the placement, the autocompletion can be useful sometimes, (although I don’t really need it, and find it a bit distracting, since you’re only writing small pieces of code).

Kind regards,

Jos

The popup should basically be placed outside of where the code is. Maybe make a specific little textbox for it on the side for example.

And is it mainly the popup that appears after you type . (autocomplete), or the popup that appears when your cursor is over/in a function (context)?

Hi,

It’s the one when I type.

Kind regards,

Jos