Support toggling code completions (copilot) on/off with a keybind

[brandondrew]

Summary

The documentation (and comments in various files) give information such as this:

Show Copilot Suggestions

• Description: Whether or not to show Copilot suggestions as you type or wait for a copilot::Toggle.
• Setting: show_copilot_suggestions
• Default: true

Options

boolean values

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and yet nowhere (that I can find) is copilot::Toggle defined. Is this a keystroke that I can add to my settings or keymap file?

I would like to avoid having Copilot spew suggestions while I'm in the middle of typing code, but I want to be able to tell it to make suggestions when I want them. As far as I can tell, this is not possible with the current version of Zed.

If it is possible, I would love to know how to do it.

[brandondrew]

Poking around in the documentation for the keymap.json file I noticed that namespace::Verb is a ubiquitous pattern, so I thought I had found the answer, however the following returned an error ("Value not accepted" followed by a list of valid values), so I think copilot::Toggle might be a mistake in the documentation.

[
  {
    "context": "Editor",
    "bindings": {
      "ctrl-shift-I": "copilot::Toggle"
    }
  }
]

I tried substituting a valid value, but it still doesn't work:

[
  {
    "context": "Editor",
    "bindings": {
      "ctrl-shift-I": "copilot::Suggest"
    }
  }
]

[JosephTLyons]

I'm not entirely sure that there's not some way to fiddle with the keybindings.json file to get this to work, but my gut instinct is that we currently can't. Happy to hear I'm wrong, if someone on the team knows differently.

[bofm]

+1 to the topic. It wasn't easy to find this issue. Maybe we could change the issue title somehow? I was searching for something like "zed copilot disable auto-suggestion".

[brandondrew]

+1 to the topic. It wasn't easy to find this issue. Maybe we could change the issue title somehow? I was searching for something like "zed copilot disable auto-suggestion".

I edited the title... it's a little bit long but maybe it will be easier to find now.

[sebastiansandqvist]

It looks like copilot::toggle used to exist (ebd06b4) and that as of PR #2316 it was possible to toggle on/off with a keybinding. Unsure when this support was removed, but I'm hoping this context helps restore that functionality since enabling copilot on-demand was something I was also trying to do.

[probably-neb]

Hey! Thanks for reporting the confusion here. Definitely seems like this is something you should be able to do in Zed.
We've decided to move feature requests like this to discussions so I'm going to move it there now.
Feel free to keep voicing your desire to have this in Zed, the more people we know want to have something like this the more likely we are to prioritize it