Cannot select the Arduino configuration for .vscode/launch.json when the .ino file is selected

[zfields]

This took me forever to figure out...

My typical workflow has the .ino file open when I want to setup the debugger.

Luckily, when I was first playing with the extension, I clicked through all the menus to see how it worked and knew Arduino was an option. So I just kept clicking and digging until I figured out the pattern to make it appear again.

In the repro below, I selected the BareMinimum.ino sketch from the Arduino: Examples in the F1 menu. Then I started recording. You can see the Arduino option exists with the welcome screen open, but as soon as I select the .ino file, then Arduino no longer appears as an option. If I close the .ino file, then Arduino reappears as an option.

The behavior I am expecting is that Arduino would always be an option, especially when an .ino file is in the foreground.

[zfields]

@benmcmorran I just repro'd this while helping a friend today. It's been several months, since I first reported, can someone look over this?

[zfields]

Hello. I logged this a year and a half ago, and I haven't even received a response from a bot. Can someone please comment on this behavior?

Debugging is so much more difficult than it needs to be.

[fredsa]

Indeed. Likely same issue as reported in #1111.