How to turn off the Javadoc hover in Eclipse (or selectively enable it)?

Question

A fellow developer dislikes the Eclipse hovering Javadoc and would like to disable it (one option), or, better yet, only selectively enable it (other option). He\'s using Eclip

Answer 1

In Eclipse 3.6 you can now specify a modifier key to be pressed down for the Combined Hover to be activated. This way, you can have the old behavior without the automatic popups. The automatic popups were driving me crazy, often obscuring something I was trying to read.