diff --git a/src/clang_complete.cc b/src/clang_complete.cc
index 9bb37b02..2bf26e9f 100644
--- a/src/clang_complete.cc
+++ b/src/clang_complete.cc
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ void DiagnosticQueryMain(ClangCompleteManager *manager) {
     // Fetching the completion request blocks until we have a request.
     ClangCompleteManager::DiagnosticRequest request =
         manager->diagnostic_request_.Dequeue();
-    if (!g_config->diagnostics.onType)
+    if (!g_config->diagnostics.onChange)
       continue;
     std::string path = request.document.uri.GetPath();
 
diff --git a/src/config.h b/src/config.h
index da94e0e3..3a134b25 100644
--- a/src/config.h
+++ b/src/config.h
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ struct Config {
   SerializeFormat cacheFormat = SerializeFormat::Binary;
 
   struct Clang {
+    // Arguments that should be excluded, e.g. ["-fopenmp", "-Wall"]
+    std::vector<std::string> excludeArgs;
+
     // Additional arguments to pass to clang.
     std::vector<std::string> extraArgs;
 
@@ -137,11 +140,11 @@ struct Config {
     //   xxx: at most every xxx milliseconds
     int frequencyMs = 0;
 
-    // If true, diagnostics will be reported in textDocument/didOpen.
-    bool onOpen = true;
+    // If true, diagnostics will be reported for textDocument/didChange.
+    bool onChange = true;
 
-    // If true, diagnostics from typing will be reported.
-    bool onType = true;
+    // If true, diagnostics will be reported for textDocument/didOpen.
+    bool onOpen = true;
 
     std::vector<std::string> whitelist;
   } diagnostics;
@@ -219,15 +222,15 @@ struct Config {
     int maxNum = 2000;
   } xref;
 };
-MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Clang, extraArgs, resourceDir);
+MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Clang, excludeArgs, extraArgs, resourceDir);
 MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::ClientCapability, snippetSupport);
 MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::CodeLens, localVariables);
 MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Completion, caseSensitivity, dropOldRequests,
                     detailedLabel, filterAndSort, includeBlacklist,
                     includeMaxPathSize, includeSuffixWhitelist,
                     includeWhitelist);
-MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Diagnostics, blacklist, frequencyMs, onOpen,
-                    onType, whitelist)
+MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Diagnostics, blacklist, frequencyMs, onChange,
+                    onOpen, whitelist)
 MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Highlight, lsRanges, blacklist, whitelist)
 MAKE_REFLECT_STRUCT(Config::Index, blacklist, comments, enabled, multiVersion,
                     multiVersionBlacklist, multiVersionWhitelist, onDidChange,
diff --git a/src/project.cc b/src/project.cc
index 708cecd6..7a4b338f 100644
--- a/src/project.cc
+++ b/src/project.cc
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ using namespace ccls;
 #include <clang/Frontend/CompilerInstance.h>
 #include <clang/Tooling/CompilationDatabase.h>
 #include <llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h>
+#include <llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h>
 #include <llvm/ADT/StringSet.h>
 #include <llvm/Support/LineIterator.h>
 using namespace clang;
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ struct ProjectProcessor {
           args.push_back(arg.substr(5));
       } else if (arg == "%clang") {
         args.push_back(lang == LanguageId::Cpp ? "clang++" : "clang");
-      } else {
+      } else if (!llvm::is_contained(g_config->clang.excludeArgs, arg)) {
         args.push_back(arg);
       }
     }