Sticky scrolling enabled by default for languages like HTML is confusing many users, consider a hint to make it clearer what it is?

[DanTup]

There are multiple posts per day on average in /r/vscode from users confused by sticky scrolling. It seems like this behaviour might a) not be obvious to users or b) not a good fit for HTML due to heavy nesting.

These posts are just from the last 3-4 days:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ayvysm/why_is_this_happening_all_of_a_sudden/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1axvr5a/remove_floating_tags/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1axz5cf/how_to_disable_the_fixed_function_name_on_line/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1axr4vy/viewing_issue/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1awkhhb/how_do_i_get_rid_of_the_stacking_code_on_top/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1awvm3z/hi_i_have_a_problem_with_vscode_i_dont_know_what/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1avprff/does_anyone_know_the_name_of_this_features_that/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1aw4vaj/anyone_facing_this_or_am_i_the_only_one/

The posts have been happening much longer than this, but probably this is enough to illustrate the issue. Personally I like the feature, but I haven't seen any topic posted on /r/vscode as often as this one. It's also difficult for users to search for this without already knowing what it is called.

Maybe some kind of hint could be shown to users at the bottom of the stick scroll panel with a link to disable/configure or a link to dismiss the notification and not see it again?

Sticky scrolling is enabled [disable/configure] [disable for (language)] [dismiss]

[starball5]

I have more links: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22VS+Code+1.86+line+of+code+started+following+me%22+site:www.reddit.com and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/77768982?lq=1

Related on Stack Overflow: VS Code 1.86 line of code started following me in split at top of screen as I scroll. Why?

[aiday-mar]

Hi thank you for the idea. In the meantime, for people who happen to see this post, you can control + right click directly on the sticky scroll widget which makes a hover appear from where you can toggle Sticky Scroll off.

[DanTup]

@aiday-mar I didn't know about this so I just tested it, but it doesn't seem to work for me - Ctrl+Click doesn't seem to do anything:

ctrl-click.mp4

Did I misunderstand what you meant?

[aiday-mar]

Ah sorry I mean control + right click

[DanTup]

Ah yes, I see that now (though if I do it on the text, it fires Go-to-Definition and doesn't show the menu). That's useful but not very discoverable (it's also odd that I can't get that menu from the breadcrumb, even though one of the options is to toggle the breadcrumb).

[spcharc]

I'm an embedded developer. I usually write C++ and don't do HTML. It seems to me this feature is quite stupid so I don't like it. It detects what should be sticky purely based on indentation?

If I have a bunch of nested statements:

void func()
{
    if (cond)
    {
        do
        {

And these will become sticky:

Besides, if the language itself requires proper indentation (like python) I believe it will work well. In C++ you don't even have to indent properly right?

[aiday-mar]

Hi @spcharc the sticky scroll feature shows sticky lines depending on your setting value for editor.stickyScroll.defaultModel as well as your extensions. The default value for the setting is outlineModel and hence if you have an outline provider (provided by a language extension generally), this model will be used to determine what line to sticky. If you do not have an outline provider, this will fall back to the folding model provider, which itself falls back in the last resort to the indentation model.

With the C++ extension pack installed, your example looks as follows:

[spcharc]

@aiday-mar I don't have C/C++ extension installed, which explains why it uses indentation.

The C/C++ extension is annoying since it keeps warning me about missing definitions everywhere in the code base ... the project I'm working on has tons of declarations and definitions generated during compile time, so they are simply not there when coding.

I just want a decent text editor I think. I don't really need intellisense or sticky scrolling.

[aiday-mar]

Hi @spcharc I understand. For now we have decided to enable the default of sticky scroll, however if you do not like it you may disable the sticky scroll feature in your settings.

[gjsjohnmurray]

See also #199381

[aiday-mar]

duplicate of #215440