enabledFileTypes `"*": false` does not function correctly

[kiweezi]

I would like cspell to only check markdown files. So exclude all other file types / languages. But it seems setting "*": false is not supported.

Here's the configuration I am trying:

"cSpell.enabledFileTypes": {
        "markdown": true,
        "*": false
},

Ordering them differently in the list, or excluding the "*" item entirely also does not work.

This means all of the following configurations function the same as each other - they enable all file types to be checked:

"cSpell.enabledFileTypes": {
        "markdown": true,
        "*": false
},
"cSpell.enabledFileTypes": {
        "markdown": true,
        "*": true
},
"cSpell.enabledFileTypes": {
        "markdown": true
},

At the very least, I think this is not user friendly behavior, and is difficult to understand. I would love if this was fixed, so that I can use it as described at the start.

Versions

• Extension: 4.0.21
• VSCode: 1.95.3
• OS: Windows 11 10.0.26100

[Jason3S]

@kiweezi,

Please create a repo that shows it not working. It is not clear from your example what is happening.

Some things to know:

• "*": false will NOT turn off already enabled files. It just means, if a file type has not been explictly enabled, please do not check it by default. By setting "*": false, it will cancel the "*": true in the default settings. See VS Code Settings Precedence on how settings are merged.
• The cSpell.enableFiletypes also impacts the list of enabled file types. Please set them to "cSpell.enableFiletypes": [].

Note: some dictionaries will explicitly enable its file type. For those, you will need to add something like "al": false. Here is a list: search cspell-dicts.