How to read the selected code and send it as part of the message/prompt.

[manzoo79]

I would like to send the selected code as part of the prompt, when communicating with the GitHub model. Can you please share an example?

[gr2m]

I'm not sure if the currently selected code is sent in the .copilot_references property of a message. Once we know that it is, we can add types to make access to it more resilient.

Can you share a raw message body that includes selected code data?

[ledoyen]

As of today, when in VS code, it is possible to add the current selection to contextual information using the icon.

It will then be added as a little label on the chat box

This results in an item of the form added to the copilot_references array:

{
  "type": "client.selection",
  "data": {
    "content": "selection content with line break and tabs escaped with \\n & \\t",
    "end": {
      "col": 5,
      "line": 51
    },
    "start": {
      "col": 3,
      "line": 44
    }
  },
  "id": "+page.svelte", // Note that this is not the absolute path of the file, and there is currently no information to get that
  "is_implicit": false,
  "metadata": {
    "display_name": "",
    "display_icon": "",
    "display_url": ""
  }
}