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title GitHub Copilot code suggestions in your IDE
shortTitle Code suggestions
allowTitleToDifferFromFilename true
intro Learn about {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} code suggestions in different IDEs.
versions
feature
copilot
defaultTool vscode
topics
Copilot
contentType concepts
category
Learn about Copilot

{% vscode %}

About code suggestions in {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %}

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %} provides two kinds of code suggestions:

  • Ghost text suggestions
    • {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} offers coding suggestions as you type. You can also describe something you want to do using natural language within a comment, and {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will suggest the code to accomplish your goal.
  • {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions_caps %} ({% data variables.release-phases.public_preview %})
    • Based on the edits you are making, {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will predict the location of the next edit you are likely to make and suggest a completion for it. Suggestions may span a single symbol, an entire line, or multiple lines, depending on the scope of the potential change. To enable {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions %}, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.copilot.supported-languages %}

{% endvscode %}

{% jetbrains %}

About code suggestions in JetBrains IDEs

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} offers inline suggestions as you type.

{% data reusables.copilot.supported-languages %}

{% endjetbrains %}

{% visualstudio %}

About code suggestions in {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %}

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} in {% data variables.product.prodname_vs %} provides two kinds of code suggestions:

  • Ghost text suggestions
    • {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} offers coding suggestions as you type.
  • {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions_caps %} ({% data variables.release-phases.public_preview %})
    • Based on the edits you are making, {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will predict the location of the next edit you are likely to make and suggest a completion for it. Suggestions may span a single symbol, an entire line, or multiple lines, depending on the scope of the potential change. To enable {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions %}, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.copilot.supported-languages %}

{% endvisualstudio %}

{% vimneovim %}

About code suggestions in Vim/Neovim

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} provides inline suggestions as you type in Vim/Neovim.

{% endvimneovim %}

{% azure_data_studio %}

About code suggestions in Azure Data Studio

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} provides you with inline suggestions as you create SQL databases in Azure Data Studio.

{% endazure_data_studio %}

{% xcode %}

About code suggestions in Xcode

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in Xcode provides two kinds of code suggestions:

  • Ghost text suggestions
    • {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} offers coding suggestions as you type. You can also describe something you want to do using natural language within a comment, and {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will suggest the code to accomplish your goal.
  • {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions_caps %} ({% data variables.release-phases.public_preview %})
    • Based on the edits you are making, {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will predict the location of the next edit you are likely to make and suggest a completion for it. Suggestions may span an entire line, or multiple lines, depending on the scope of the potential change. {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions_caps %} are enabled by default. To disable, see AUTOTITLE.

{% endxcode %}

{% eclipse %}

About code suggestions in Eclipse

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} in Eclipse provides two kinds of code suggestions:

  • Ghost text suggestions
    • {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} offers coding suggestions as you type. You can also describe something you want to do using natural language within a comment, and {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will suggest the code to accomplish your goal.
  • {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions_caps %} ({% data variables.release-phases.public_preview %})
    • Based on the edits you are making, {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} will predict the location of the next edit you are likely to make and suggest a completion for it. Suggestions may span a single symbol, an entire line, or multiple lines, depending on the scope of the potential change. To enable {% data variables.copilot.next_edit_suggestions %}, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data reusables.copilot.supported-languages %}

{% endeclipse %}

Code suggestions that match public code

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %} checks each suggestion for matches with publicly available code. Matches may be discarded or suggested with a code reference, based on the setting of the "Suggestions matching public code" policy for your account or organization. See AUTOTITLE.

About the AI model used for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} inline suggestions

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} inline suggestions use the {% data variables.copilot.copilot_gpt_41 %} {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} model. The {% data variables.copilot.copilot_gpt_41 %} {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} model was trained on a wide range of high quality public {% data variables.product.github %} repositories, providing coverage of over 30 programming languages. See Programming languages included in the default model below.

{% vscode %}

Changing the model used for inline suggestions

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-prereqs-vscode %}

Changing the model only affects {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} ghost text suggestions. It does not affect {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} next edit suggestions.

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-model-affects %}

{% endvscode %}

{% visualstudio %}

Changing the model used for inline suggestions

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-prereqs-vs %}

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-model-affects %}

{% endvisualstudio %}

{% jetbrains %}

Changing the model used for inline suggestions

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-prereqs-jetbrains %}

{% data reusables.copilot.code-completion-switch-model-affects %}

{% endjetbrains %}

Programming languages included in the default model

The following programming languages and technologies are included in the training data for the default LLM used for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} inline suggestions:

  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • Clojure
  • CSS
  • Dart
  • Dockerfile
  • Elixir
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Julia
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Kotlin
  • Lua
  • MATLAB
  • Objective-C
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Shell
  • Swift
  • TeX
  • TypeScript
  • Vue

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