Turn off Copilot Temporarily for inline Suggestions in Visual Studio

[Axium7]

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Hello GitHub,

In a Copilot YouTube video I watched, the user was able to quickly toggle Copilot off and On for inline suggestions in the VS Editor to reduce distractions.

How can I temporarily Turn off Copilot in the Editor? Note, I typically have Copilot Chat open always in it's own Tab and I do not want to Turn that off.

Thank you

[davevad93]

Hi @Picard78 ,

I don't know if it's possible by default using Copilot settings, in settings.json you can set the following line to false github.copilot.inlineSuggest.enable: false but it disables Copilot completely.

Apparently there's an extension to do that but I have never used it; check out the fourth answer in this Stack Overflow post, if you're interested there are details about it.

[Axium7]

VS is very different. I don't have such a button. Thank you for your attempt David.

[davevad93]

You're welcome @Picard78 and you're right , I'm on Visual Studio 2022 right now and the button I was talking about is no longer there, instead there's this other one on the top right near the toolbar.

This was the button I was talking about but now it's gone, I guess it's a change of the latest versions of the extension.

However I didn't find the option to access settings.json in Visual Studio.

[Axium7]

Dave that Button has been removed in the latest Version of VS.

[ayim]

In 17.10 and above, the option per language is in the GitHub Copilot toolbar here:

In 17.12 preview and above, the option has been changed to GitHub copilot autocomplete across all languages
(you will still see grey-text from IntelliCode completions, which are one line tops).

There is also a setting that you can bind a shortcut to:
Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard, then search for "Completions".
If you bind a shortcut to IntelliCode completions, that controls ALL the grey-text.

[davevad93]

Thank you very much @ayim for the input!

[Axium7]

Thanks ayim. Appreciate your response.