How to open definition of method or class in peek view in Visual Studio

In Visual Studio holding Ctrl and clicking on a method or class name will by default bring you to its definition… 

This is nice but I prefer to change this functionality to just open the definition in peek view instead so I can stay where I am in the solution. To do this check the highlighted options box below…


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