No more surrounding or auto-closing in commit msg box

• VS Code Version: 1.54.3
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19042

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Write a commit message
2. Select a word, type `

Expected: the word is surrounded by ` like in VS Code v1.44.2.

Since 1.45, this doesn’t happen anymore, instead the word is replaced by `. It’s the same with auto-closing.

This was very useful to type markdown-like commit messages. If this is not a bug/intended, is there a way to reenable this behavior?

v1.44.2 :

v1.54.3 (1.51.1 for the capture but it’s the same since 1.45) :

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[lszomoru]

1. (scminput only) create a /extensions/git-base/languages/scminput.language-configuration.json file with the plaintext configuration? (Not the way to go I think)
2. (scminput only) edit https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/1.72.2/src/vs/workbench/contrib/scm/browser/scm.contribution.ts#L34 to add a copy of the plaintext configuration? Would you accept a PR?
3. configure the language myself using the settings? Is that possible at all? This would be the best option IMO: allowing each user to configure the editor as wanted, but it seems unsupported (https://old.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/qo28jx/change_some_language_settings/)
4. create an extensions that would add/configure the surroundingPairs in theses 2 languages (scminput, git-commit)? How hard would that be?

Option No2 seems reasonable to me. @joaomoreno, @alexdima what do you think?

[alexdima]

@joaomoreno This commit defines the language of the SCM input to be scminput. The language scminput does not have any surrounding pairs defined. Here is as an example the language configuration for plaintext.