includePath does not support ${fileDirname} about vscode-cpptools HOT 4 OPEN

${fileDirname} is not a stable path, so that variable is not supported in our configurations. Currently our extension only allows for per-file configurations via compile_commands.json and configurationProvider.

I believe this has been requested before, but I'm not sure that we kept that issue. We could maybe detect variables like ${fileDirname} and create a hidden configuration provider for them. I'll mark this as a feature request.

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Ok, thanks.

just to explain a bit more: my first guess was, to write those include paths without the ${fileDirname} variable but that didn't work either. The goal is, that the search behavior is the same as the compiler does. There I have the same include structure. So in the end it would also be sufficient for me to just write ../../h. The extensions just needs to know that the start for all included header files is the current file.

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If your files all have a common parent folder, you could do: /project/commonparent/**/h and /project/commonparent/**/incs and we'll figure out the include paths for you.

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