> ChatGPT-like experience in your editor with GitHub Copilot Chat
The best thing about VS Code is how you can click on the tab of the current editor and drag it out into a new self-contained window, so that you can move it to another monitor. This is such an optimal use of screen real estate.
I will drag out Copilot from the main VS Code window to my right monitor, have the main editor in the center monitor, and Google / GitHub / API docs on the left monitor.
VS Code constrains a single IDE instance to a single window. Extra flyouts like Copilot chat can only exist in this window, impacting on available real-estate for the code we actually care about.
Why not offer parts of it as a website? The part where I chat with it, where I ask my questions and get my answers. (Maybe it could bridge into VS Code via a local server to exchange code.)
"GitHub Copilot chat is not just a chat window. It understands what code a developer has typed, what error messages are shown, and it's deeply integrated into ..."
The best thing about VS Code is how you can click on the tab of the current editor and drag it out into a new self-contained window, so that you can move it to another monitor. This is such an optimal use of screen real estate.
I will drag out Copilot from the main VS Code window to my right monitor, have the main editor in the center monitor, and Google / GitHub / API docs on the left monitor.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.