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I have been using this solution for IntelliJ 12 for auto popup quick documentation on mouse over.

But the new version of IntelliJ 13 does not do anything when you set the auto.show.quick.doc=true in the idea.properties file.

Any Ideas to get this to work for version JetBrains IntelliJ 13?

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For ItelliJ IDEA 13 the setting auto.show.quick.doc=true property in the idea.properties appears to now reside in the preferences.

Go to the ItelliJ IDEA Menu -> Preferences -> Editor -> scroll down to the Other section and Check Show quick doc on mouse move

IntelliJ Preferences

Now you have mouse over Quick Doc functionality working again for ItelliJ IDEA 13:

Show quick doc on mouse move

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    Also, you can find my blog post regarding this issue [**here**](http://blog.iteedee.com/2013/12/intellij-13-quick-doc-pop-up-on-mouseover/) – hylander0 Dec 16 '13 at 21:45
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    thank god, this was so annoying, now i know how to turn it off, this didnt show correct documentation and was always empty and super annoying, probably because i am behind proxy or intellij 14/15 is buggy as hell – Kalpesh Soni Nov 16 '15 at 01:28
  • Worth noting: not sure if this ever happened to anyone else, but IntelliJ IDEA seems to hang sometimes when fetching online documentation. Each time I hovered on a specific nodejs module method (`async.series`) it froze up on the popup. By unchecking the quick doc feature, I can be productive again! – chamberlainpi Jun 06 '16 at 18:15