Keyboard navigation to scroll the response about vscode-copilot-release HOT 7 CLOSED

Yeah, so you can use cmd+up to move focus from the input to the chat list, then arrow keys to navigate by response

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There are commands for this, list.scrollUp/list.scrollDown

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I don't think list.scrollUp / list.scrollDown is a real solution. The scrolling speed is to slow. Check the demo:

Also, I couldn't figure out a when context I can use to limit the key bindings to the chat window. I have tried listFocus, but it doesn't work. Any suggestions? In my case Copilot Chat window is on the panel, not sidebar, so I assume it should be something like panelFocus && activePanel == 'workbench.view.???'?

  {
    "key": "pageup",
    "command": "list.scrollUp",
    // "when": "listFocus" 
  },
  {
    "key": "pagedown",
    "command": "list.scrollDown",
    // "when": "listFocus"
  }

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It seems reasonable to me, do you want something that would scroll by page, or the same as here but faster?

You could use the inChat context key

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Thank you for inChat hint, it works!

It seems reasonable to me, do you want something that would scroll by page, or the same as here but faster?

If you ask me I believe there several improvements need to be done:

1. Scrolling by page is must have
2. Commands to scroll to the previous/next answers, similar to workbench.action.terminal.scrollToPreviousCommand / workbench.action.terminal.scrollToNextCommand
3. The chat window should scroll automatically when the cursor goes out of the view via Tab/Shift+Tab shortcuts (in chat window these keys move the cursor to next/previous code blocks)

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For 1, I opened microsoft/vscode#226194

For 2, you can just use the arrow keys, or do I misunderstand?

Also agree for 3, there are some oddities with focus handling here, there is an open issue for this

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For 2, you can just use the arrow keys, or do I misunderstand?

I don't think arrow keys are related. Let's imagine you talk to Copilot and it generated several responses, so the chat window looks like this:

Response 1 
...long body of Response 1...

Response 2
...long body of Response 2...

Response 3
...long body of Response 3...

So, it would be great to have commands to scroll the chat window to previous/next Response.

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