Add ability to turn auto-complete off for certain files or file types

[dschuessler]

Validations

• I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

There are particular files or file types where I don't want Continue to provide auto-complete suggestions because there is little chance of the suggestions being helpful (e.g. when writing prose or code in obscure domain specific languages) and I don't want to waste resources on unhelpful suggestions.

Solution

A setting with a list of globs that match files to be ignored, e.g. **/*.md or .env. Continue.dev does not provide auto-completion for these files.

[SpeedCrash100]

It has already here. See "disableInFiles".

So config will have:

 "tabAutocompleteOptions": {
    "disableInFiles": [
      "*.md", ".env"
    ]
  }

It should automatically migrate in Pre-Release version of Continue in Settings tab as described by docs.

[dschuessler]

Thanks! I hadn't found that in the docs for some reason.

[e-volusian]

For any future searchers, this is now in the User Settings

Disable autocomplete in files

Must use a glob format. This appears to work

**/*.txt, **/*.md

[porcoesphino]

The comment here points to old documentation that only mentions "autocompleteOptions" that are per agent.

I found this

Disable autocomplete in files: List of comma-separated glob pattern to disable autocomplete in matching files. E.g., ”_/.md, */.txt”

Here:

https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/autocomplete#customize-autocomplete-user-settings-in-the-continue-extension

But in Visual Studio Code the Continue extension (version 1.2.3) doesn't have that option. I opened the JSON file and used continue. to explore all the options in the installed extension and the only option I saw that was relevant was continue.enableTabAutocomplete that allowed for true and false.

This is painful enough for the markdown files I'm editing I'm just going to disable the extension