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Don't override sticky scroll settings if intellisense is disabled, to avoid conflicts with Clangd #13574
Description
Environment
- OS and Version: Windows 10
- VS Code Version: 1.99.3
- C/C++ Extension Version: 1.25.3
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Bug Summary and Steps to Reproduce
Refer to clangd/clangd#2221
When both Clangd and the Micosoft's C/C++ extension are installed, the latter messes with the sticky scroll settings, prevending Clangd from displaying it properly.
This happens even with "C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngine": "disabled", which is probably undesirable.
I suggest disabling this behavior when intellisense is disabled.
How to repro:
- Install both the MS C/C++ extension and Clangd. Ensure Clangd is working.
- Disable intellisense when prompted (MS extension suggests this when it sees clangd).
- Trigger sticky scroll. Ensure that you follow the style where
{s are on separate lines. - Observe that the sticky scroll only displays the
{s instead of the function signatures:
Configuration and Logs
Not relevant.Other Extensions
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Additional context
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[-]Don't override sticky scroll settings if intellisense is disabled[/-][+]Don't override sticky scroll settings if intellisense is disabled, to avoid conflicts with Clangd[/+]sean-mcmanus commentedon Apr 30, 2025
Egor Mikhaylov (@adalisk-emikhaylov) The setting is overridden in our package.json at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/Extension/package.json#L6073 so it's not dynamic or based on other settings. You can override it by using
and/or add a case for
[c]or[cuda-cpp].Did you have a suggestion on what else we should be doing?
adalisk-emikhaylov commentedon May 5, 2025
I see. I'm not too familiar with VSC extension development, so I don't know if there are better solutions.
Perhaps add a popup that asks if you want to enable this, if Clangd is detected? Similar to the popup that suggests disabling Intellisense?
Or at least warn about this in the existing popup.
github-actions commentedon Jun 4, 2025
Hey Sean McManus (@sean-mcmanus), this issue might need further attention.
Egor Mikhaylov (@adalisk-emikhaylov), you can help us out by closing this issue if the problem no longer exists, or adding more information.
sean-mcmanus commentedon Jun 4, 2025
This might be fixable via checking to see if the stick scroll setting value is coming from our extension (if possible via the inspect APIs?) and then if intelliSenseEngine == disabling setting the setting to the VS Code default instead. The main concern is making sure a setting set by the user isn't being overwritten. I think the IntelliSense disabling message is from the Clangd extension, so potentially they could fix this by also setting the sticky scroll setting at the same time they set the intelliSenseEngine setting.
vscode settings: Fix sticky scroll with clangd microsoft/vscode-cppto…
github-actions commentedon Aug 4, 2025
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github-actions commentedon Aug 5, 2025
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bartlomiejszozda commentedon Aug 22, 2025
Changing this setting for language works for me, and I use clangd with IntelliSenseEngine disabled.
For cpp search
@id:editor.stickyScroll.defaultModel @lang:cpp sticky scrollin the settings and change tooutlineModelSpongman commentedon Jan 31, 2026
the clangd
outlineModelonly shows namespaces/functions, whereas thedefaultModelalso shows statements (if, while, switch, etc...).can we have an option where the defaultModel detects if the line only contains whitespace/open-brace/comment and shows the previous non-whitespace/comment line instead ?