feature request: copilot-assisted snippet variables

[josharian]

Daydream idea: A cursorless snippet variable that is specified to be filled in by copilot, with a given prompt. Something like:

"body": [
    "fmt.Println($localvars)"
],
"variables": {
    "localvars": {
        "copilot-prompt": "put nearby local variables here, along with their names, to help with debug printing"
    }
},

Then I could say snippet whale trap fine and get a nice debug helper prepopulated.

I'm not sure that the copilot/VSCodes hooks for this exist, sadly. Maybe with a direct ChatGPT integration, but you'd lose all the copilot context selection and prompt engineering that GitHub has done.

[josharian]

I'm unsure exactly where to file an upstream feature request for this. Tried https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/60325

[pokey]

Fwiw I tried doing this manually using inline copilot chat, and it is too dumb to figure it out 😅

In my experience so far, copilot inline chat is waaay dumber than regular copilot suggestions unfortunately

Here's some experiments with trying to get regular copilot suggestions to work:

[josharian]

Awesome! The regular copilot suggestions look promising, at least.