Unrelated settings in settings editor

abhijit-chikane commented 4 months ago

Right now I have not installed the copilot chat extension still it shows me the chat settings

rzhao271 commented 4 months ago

It looks like this behaviour applies to several inline chat settings. Adding @jrieken

jrieken commented 4 months ago

Inline chat (and very many other features) consist usually of three pieces

an agnostic UI implementation that can show and do things (this also comes with settings)
an API
one or more extensions that implement the API to drive said UI

The settings you are seeing are for the (extension agnostic UI). I do agree that without matching extensions they aren't helpful but also cause no harm.

@rzhao271 I'd say this is "as designed" unless the settings editor/model has a trick to hide settings that drive features which require extensions. In theory this applies to almost all features (IntelliSense, formatting, SCM) but practically we ship default extension for those too

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Unrelated settings in settings editor #220004