Copilot chat and assistant visual separation

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Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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Copilot chat and assistant visual separation #12838

Open gambithunt opened 3 weeks ago

gambithunt commented 3 weeks ago

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I love Zed but something I'm really missing is the copilot chat feature. I realise that there is the assistant panel but I have to enter my gpt token there while I'm already paying for copilot, I think to have both would be amazing. Offer the choice and even switch between the two.

On that note, the styling of the assistant panel could be a little better. Decent visual separation of ME, ASSISTANT andCODE BOXES would be great. This could be done with css and be light weight.

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widersky commented 3 weeks ago

There's already highly upvoted issue for this: #4673

The problem here is Chat support is heavily dependent on GitHub developers. It is not possible to implement this functionality straight away. There is no API for this. Perhaps when Zed releases the appropriate extension API, GitHub will decide to create an extension adding Chat CoPilot to Zed, or create an appropriate Chat API over time.

gambithunt commented 3 weeks ago

Aaa yes,

The current implementation is nice but a visual tweak would make it so much better.

For instance -

Ability to change font size, unlock the font size from the editor, sometimes it's nice to have it a little smaller so it's more contained.
Slightly different backgrounds for ME, ASSISTANT and CODE BOXES.

Using it independently over codepilot chat has advantages:

Ability to choose model
It's so much faster

What would be a nice feature add is an optional pre-prompt, this will give even further customisability to it.