GitHub Copilot in VSCode Tips

Shortcuts (Mac)

Get part of the Ghost Text

Cmd + Right arrow

View all Ghost Text options

Ctrl + Enter

Inline Chat

Cmd + I

View all Ghost Text options

Ctrl + Enter

Chat sidebar

GitHub Copilot icon next to the big search bar with the name of the project -> Open chat or `⌃ + ⌘ + I`

Extensions

  • Vision for Copilot Preview -> allows users to attach images directly as contextual input, enriching conversations and enabling more dynamic, visually-supported responses. This extension will be eventually deprecated in favor of built-in image flow in Github Copilot Chat.

    • Settings:

    copilot.vision.provider: The selected provider (currently limted to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini).

    copilot.vision.model: The model for the currently selected provider.

  • Data Analysis for Copilot -> analyze your data inside the chat and it first gives you info about the data and describe it for you; you can also chat with the data with @data, to ask questions about it and it’ll answer. You also create graphs by asking like “@data display a visualization of this”.

  • GitHub Pull Requests -> This extension allows you to review and manage GitHub pull requests and issues in Visual Studio Code. Since version 0.100.0, you can use Copilot to sumarize a commit or an issue, for instance. To try everything out, you can set the following settings:

    • “githubPullRequests.experimental.chat”: true
    • “githubPullRequests.experimental.notificationsView”: true