Github Copilot

Github Copilot

Copilot and Vscode docs page

Home page of github copilot

An introductory article at their homepage

Customize chat responses in VS Code

  1. This is the official doc on copilot customization
  2. at copilot docs
  3. talks very tersely the .instructions.md and .prompts.md

Custom instructions at vscode blog

  1. Points to vscode blog
  2. Few topics on how to enable copilot, mcp etc
  3. Future ref for blogs
  4. And see if I can use custom instructions to any benefit

See Key bindings: ctrl-k ctrl-s

I used ctrl-alt-u for Open an inline chat.


Inline Chat: Editor Inline Chat
  1. Green: Lines that have been added.
  2. Blue: Lines that have been modified.
  3. Red: Lines that have been removed (often shown as a marker where the line was deleted).
  1. Enables a whole bunch of gutters to show differences
  2. They won't go away whether you save the file or not
  3. Keep and undo sometimes don't seem to work at all
  4. Restarting the vscode seem to help
  5. The changes based on prompt are very unreliable (suggestion is use o3... related reasoning models)
  1. inline updates based on prompts seem even more unreliable
  2. chat mode in edit mode... seem a touch better