Test: "files.defaultLanguage": "${activeEditorLanguage}"

[bpasero]

Refs: #78903

• macOS @misolori
• anyOS @bowdenk7

Complexity: 2

Steps:

• configure "files.defaultLanguage": "${activeEditorLanguage}" in settings
• verify that each untitled file you open will take the language mode from the currently active file if any
• verify this setting is suggested in settings help and its description makes sense

[miguelsolorio]

This works really well 👏. Any thoughts on making ${activeEditorLanguage} the default? I really like that it defaults to plain text when there aren't any active editors.

[bowdenk7]

👍 - not sure about making it the default because I know a lot of people use it as a notepad substitute, and depending on what kind of language service you get it's really distracting:

[bpasero]

This works really well 👏. Any thoughts on making ${activeEditorLanguage} the default? I really like that it defaults to plain text when there aren't any active editors.

I am also not 100% sure this is good to do. Given we also now automatically flip the mode as soon as you copy/paste text, I think it gets less likely that you end up in text mode and not in a specific mode.