Visual Studio Code – Prevent Intellisense popup without disabling Intellisense completely

When Intellisense is enabled in Visual Studio Code, VS Code will continually produce pop-up windows as you type with autocomplete suggestions.

The user can then select one of these by pressing tab, enter, etc.

The problem with this is twofold:

• The popup window obscures code behind it. This is a problem if you are copying code from the lines which happen to be obscured, or you just need to see those lines of code for any reason.
• The popup window steals keystrokes, such as arrow key navigation movements and, obviously, pressing Enter.

The second of these issues can be addressed by re-assigning the key bindings so that, for example, CTRL+UDLR is used instead of UDLR arrow keys.

I don’t know how to resolve the first problem.

I do not want to disable Intellisense completely, as I then loose some useful features, such as being able to look up where classes/types are defined from the Right Click menu.

Since I am working on a large codebase, this feature is pretty much non-optional.

Is there a way to prevent the popup from showing automatically. In an ideal world, I would like to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to trigger the Intellisense popup to load, but I don’t know if that is possible?

In short

• How do I stop the Intellisense popup from showing without disabling Intellisense
• Can I assign a keyboard shortcut to trigger the popup to load if I want to see the autocomplete suggestions at a particular time?

Note: When I say Intellisense I mean the information that the C++ Extension Pack provides. It might be called something different, I know it as Intellisense from using Visual Studio back in the day.