Multiple language-specific editor settings not working the same as separate blocks

[mprisehk]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: No (because I am using Prettier to demonstrate), though still this seems to be an issue in VS Code.

• VS Code Version: 1.96.4
• OS Version: Windows 11

Steps to Reproduce:

1. When I define my settings.json like this, Prettier IS NOT the formatter used for formatting json files (incorrect behavior):

  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "[typescriptreact][json]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",

2. When I define my settings.json like this, Prettier IS the formatter used for formatting json files:

  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "[typescriptreact]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "[json]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode"
  },
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",

The only difference between the two settings.json snippets is that in the first, the language-specific instructions are combined into one line (as introduced in issue 51935, and documented https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_multiple-languagespecific-editor-settings), while in the second they are defined as separate blocks.

As far as I understand, the behavior between the two should be exactly the same.

I have tried both "[json][typescriptreact]" and "[typescriptreact][json]", but in neither case will Prettier be the active formatter in JSON files. Only when using the "[json]" language tag on its own it will work.

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[mprisehk]

Now updated to latest, still the issue remains.

[rzhao271]

fyi @sandy081 this doesn't seem to be a duplicate of previous issues. It sounds like the User-scoped but language-specific "[typescriptreact][json]" version of the setting is not overriding the User-scoped version of the setting.

[sandy081]

Can you please share all your user settings and workspace settings to reproduce the issue?

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