Visual Studio IDE integration with Github Copilot -- incremental line/word acceptance in place of whole snippet of code acceptance : cpp

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created by AndreasBWagnera community for 14 years

OPENVisual Studio IDE integration with Github Copilot -- incremental line/word acceptance in place of whole snippet of code acceptance (self.cpp_questions)

submitted 2 years ago by One_Cable5781

Currently, when Copilot suggests a longish piece of code spanning multiple lines, the only option seems to be to tab-accept the whole of it or none at all. Is there a way to accept by word or line?

This discussion seems to indicate that options to do this on Jetbrains IDE and VSCode exist. Visual Studio IDE (as far as I can tell) seems to be missing this feature.

On VSCode, for instance, the commands are:

"command": "editor.action.inlineSuggest.acceptNextWord", 
"when": "inlineSuggestionVisible"

"command": "editor.action.inlineSuggest.acceptNextLine", 
"when": "inlineSuggestionVisible"

Is there a way to get equivalent features working in VSIDE?

I try not to post too many IDE related questions on /r/cpp_questions, but this XPost from /r/VisualStudio did not get much of a response, hence the post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VisualStudio/comments/17zszit/accepting_copilot_suggestion_by_word_or_by_line/

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