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#1970 Explain how to configure mouse hovering better

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@ -310,8 +310,9 @@ ALE supports "hover" information for printing brief information about symbols at
the cursor taken from Language Server Protocol linters and `tsserver` with the
`ALEHover` command.
On vim/gvim with `balloon` support you can see the information in a tooltip
that appears under the mouse when you mouseover a symbol.
The information can be displayed in a `balloon` tooltip in Vim or GVim by
hovering your mouse over symbols. Mouse hovering is enabled by default in GVim,
and needs to be configured for Vim 8.1+ in terminals.
See `:help ale-hover` for more information.

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@ -759,12 +759,25 @@ at the cursor taken from LSP linters. The following commands are supported:
|ALEHover| - Print information about the symbol at the cursor.
If |b:ale_set_balloons| is set to `1` and your version of Vim supports the
If |g:ale_set_balloons| is set to `1` and your version of Vim supports the
|balloon_show()| function, then "hover" information also show up when you move
the mouse over a symbol in a buffer. Diagnostic information will take priority
over hover information for balloons. If a line contains a problem, that
problem will be displayed in a balloon instead of hover information.
For Vim 8.1+ terminals, mouse hovering is disabled by default. Enabling
|balloonexpr| commands in terminals can cause scrolling issues in terminals,
so ALE will not attempt to show balloons unless |g:ale_set_balloons| is set to
`1` before ALE is loaded.
For enabling mouse support in terminals, you may have to change your mouse
settings. For example: >
" Example mouse settings.
" You will need to try different settings, depending on your terminal.
set mouse=a
set ttymouse=xterm
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6. Global Options *ale-options*