What's probably happening is that most people don't mind, and the current behaviour maps neatly to the way most IDEs behave. And so there probably isn't the wil

What's probably happening is that most people don't mind, and the current behaviour maps neatly to the way most IDEs behave. And so there probably isn't the will to change it. CMake does have an issue tracker: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues