How do you prevent VS Code from reopening file at previous scroll position

Question

When using VS Code I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour. When I re-open a file, the editor opens at the previous scroll position.

Example:

• I open a long file, scroll half way down make some edits, save and close the file
• I reopen the same file again. It will open at the same scroll position where I made the edits half way down the file.

I expected that the editor would reopen the file back at the top of the file like in other text editors.

I haven't been able to find any settings that would explain this behavior.

Answer 1

just add the following line in the settings.json:

"workbench.editor.restoreViewState": false