[Python] VSCode (on a remote Ubuntu) not offering auto-complete suggestions for any C++ or...

I am running VSCode on my Windows 11 laptop as the client of a VSCode server on a Ubuntu 22.4 (Jammy) machine.

This is VScode 1.101.1 (user setup) and my remote Ubuntu has that version too.

I have a folder which is a mixed Python/C++ project. When I open this folder and then files from that folder I get no auto-complete suggestions for neither Python nor C++.



Both file types have been recognized for what they are (bottom-right corner correctly says either Python or C++). Both relevant extensions (C/C++, Python) are installed on the Ubuntu machineand running. I have a local (to my project) compile_commands.json which I was elsewhere suggested to generate by running cmake with some -D option (not sure if it helps or makes things worse). It has a lot of content, namely 106 entries of the form :

{
"directory": "/home/<user>/gpudrive/build/tests",
"command": "/home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona/external/madrona-toolchain/bundled-toolchain/toolchain/bin/clang++ -DMADRONA_LINUX=\"(1)\" -I/home/<user>/gpudrive/src -I/home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona -I/home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona/src/common/../../include -I/home/<user>/gpudrive/external/json/include -isystem /home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona/external/googletest/googletest/include -isystem /home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona/external/googletest/googletest -isystem /home/<user>/gpudrive/external/madrona/external/madrona-toolchain/bundled-toolchain/libcxx-noexcept/include/c++/v1 -isystem /usr/local/cuda-12.4/include -g -ggdb3 -fvisibility=hidden -nostdinc++ -nostdlib++ -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fcolor-diagnostics -Wshadow -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -march=x86-64-v3 -std=c++20 -o CMakeFiles/my_tests.dir/observationTest.cpp.o -c /home/<user>/gpudrive/tests/observationTest.cpp",
"file": "/home/<user>/gpudrive/tests/observationTest.cpp"
},


I also have a ~/.vscode/settings.json with this litttle content :

{
"editor.semanticHighlighting.enabled": true,
"C_Cpp.enhancedColorization": "Enabled"
}


and a project-specific .vscode/settings.json with this :

{
"files.associations": {
"*.hpp": "cpp",
"*.inc": "cpp",
"__tree": "cpp",
"map": "cpp",
"chrono": "cpp",
"__bit_reference": "cpp",
"__node_handle": "cpp",
"bitset": "cpp",
"deque": "cpp",
"__memory": "cpp",
"limits": "cpp",
"optional": "cpp",
"ratio": "cpp",
"regex": "cpp",
"tuple": "cpp",
"vector": "cpp",
"system_error": "cpp",
"array": "cpp",
"functional": "cpp",
"type_traits": "cpp",
"utility": "cpp",
"variant": "cpp",
"__functional_base": "cpp",
"algorithm": "cpp",
"filesystem": "cpp",
"memory": "cpp",
"random": "cpp",
"istream": "cpp",
"locale": "cpp"
},
"C_Cpp.errorSquiggles": "disabled",
"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngine": "Default",
"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngineFallback": "Enabled",
"C_Cpp.loggingLevel": "Debug"
}


and a local .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json with

{
"version": 4,
"configurations": [
{
"name": "<Ubuntu machine>",
"compilerPath": "/usr/bin/g++",
"compileCommands": "${workspaceFolder}/build/compile_commands.json",
"cStandard": "c17",
"cppStandard": "c++20",
"includePath": [
"${workspaceFolder}/**",
"/usr/include",
"/usr/local/include",
"/usr/local/cuda-12.4/include"
],
"intelliSenseMode": "linux-gcc-x64"
}
]
}


Not sure what else I might post here that might help.

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