I was annoyed at this too, and failed to find a decent automated solution anywhere on the web. So, I wrote a VSCode extension that watches the TextMate scopes wherever your active selection is, and if it detects a scope that contains comment, temporarily disables Copilot’s inline suggestions until your caret is anywhere without a … Read more
Three common causes: An out of date IDE. Solution: make sure your IDE is up to date If you’re not properly signed in to GitHub CoPilot. Solution: make sure you’re signed in to GitHub CoPilot E.g. In VSCode look on the bottom left, if you see this, you might not be signed in: Click the … Read more
I thought I had this problem. It turned out that the current version of copilot simply only had one suggestion in a lot of cases. You can see if copilot has alternate suggestions by hovering your mouse over the suggestion. For me, in the cases where the keyboard shortcuts ‘didn’t work’, there simply were no … Read more
Not an answer, but too long for a comment. There does not seem to be as of mid 2022 an implementation. Copilot uses an underlying tool, OpenAI Codex, which has a model called codex-davinci-002, which can do code completion. https://beta.openai.com/docs/models/codex-series-private-beta (it’s worth noting that OpenAI also have a model confusingly called text-davinci-002 which converts natural … Read more
In settings.json (under File, Preferences, Settings), I found that setting the more general option: “editor.inlineSuggest.enabled”: false, Seems to work as I’d hoped. Copilot suggestions are now only provided on-demand, when I press Alt\, and accepted when I press Tab I worry that this might disable other types of suggestions I rely on… but language auto-completion … Read more
I have to restart my IDE, then go to tools->GitHub copilot: 1- restart IDE 2- got to “tools” -> “GitHub copilot” -> “login to GitHub” 3- it will show you a popup with code, click on copy and open to add and trust your device.
Copilot error: “GitHub Copilot could not connect to server. Extension activation failed: self-signed certificate in certificate chain” is generally caused using CoPilot behind a Corporate network. Most corporate networks have a ‘Man-in-the-middle’ appliance that dynamically breaks open all secure SSL traffic leaving home to enter the internet. This ensures they can inspected any traffic leaving, … Read more
File –> Settings –> Plugins –> type “copilot” in search field and install.