How to disable automatic selection of a VSCode character?

Question

In VSCode, when the cursor is on a character (function name, var name, etc.), the character is automatically highlighted in the document.

Here is an example:

I searched several times in the settings file, but the only match for highlightis editor.selectionHighlightthat I installed in false, and it still does something else.

How to disable automatic selection?

Answer 1

This feature has just been implemented.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5351#event-982256414

The solution will be (after the changes are transferred to the public channel in March 2017) to use editor.occurrencesHighlightin the configuration file.