Cpptools defaults are not in effect while working over Remote SSH

[Andrey (aol-nnov)]

Hi!

I've started with idea to create vscode C++ profile with sensible defaults for most of my projects, so, I stuffed my settings.json with C_Cpp.default.* lines.

Imagine my surprise after connecting to remote when I saw greyed-out params in my settings.json and a popup This setting cannot be applied in this window. It will be applied when you open a local window.

Any chances to make in work with remote windows?

Thanks in advance,
Andrey

[Colen Garoutte-Carson (Colengms)]

Hi Andrey (@aol-nnov) . Some settings, such as a compiler path, will likely differ between machines (and platforms), so are set internally as machine-overridable. This distinction ensure potentially invalid platform-specific settings are not automatically shared to a machine they won't apply to. https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#:~:text=machine%2Doverridable%20%2D%20Machine%20specific%20settings,%2C%20workspace%2C%20or%20remote%20settings.

When using a WSL instance, there is a set of setting global for that instance.

From the Config UI, you can also go to the JSON file using the button here:

That should open, i.e. :