Causing unnecessary highlighting of text even when nothing is selected

[ShreyanshJoshi]

Type: Bug

All the text in a SQL file seems to be highlighted in blue (as if it's selected) even when nothing is being selected in VS Code. This is pretty annoying and it goes away only when a particular part is actually selected by me. Adding screenshot below (nothing is selected here, but still the text seems highlighted) -

Extension version: 0.28.1
VS Code version: Code 1.85.1 (Universal) (0ee08df0cf4527e40edc9aa28f4b5bd38bbff2b2, 2023-12-13T09:48:06.308Z)
OS version: Darwin arm64 23.2.0
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[fuzl-llc]

I think that is by design. There is a command to run the selected query so this can actually be useful if you have more than one query and move the mouse cursor around in the file, it auto-selects the query that will be run by that command. I was annoyed by it too and found a "SQLTools Highlight Query" setting to turn it off.

[ShreyanshJoshi]

Where can I find this "SQLTools Highlight Query" setting? Is this part of the extension?

[gjsjohnmurray]

Do you know about how to use the VS Code Settings Editor?