How can the inline "cmd+I to continue with copilot" suggestion in VS Code be disabled?

[ege-erdogan]

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This is both a question and feedback.

This inline suggestion pops up when typing things even if copilot is disabled for that file type. So far the only way I've found to make this go away is by completely uninstalling copilot which I don't want to do. How can this be disabled? Nothing in the copilot settings appears to help.

More as a feedback, it is extremely annoying to have this "suggestion" pop up each time you type something in a code editor. A code editor shouldn't be a place for nudging you to use a certain feature.

Thanks!

[likanzhan]

I have the similar question.

[dillonkrug]

+1 this "feature" is an annoyance at best.

EDIT: Right clicking on the message shows a dropdown with "Disable inline chat hint"

[crujedo-qualia]

Right clicking this actually doesn't work in Linux, at least for me. :(

[heofthetea]

I too am on linux, and apparently you really cannot right-click that message there. @dillonkrug if you're on vscode, could you maybe check whether disabling the "feature" via right-click is reflected in an entry in your setting.json?
EDIT: found the solution myself, see my reply below

[DevinCLane]

thank you

[diego898]

My goodness - thank you for that! I would have never guessed to right-click the hint - cant believe it's a feature to just ... permanently display that on all lines - forever?

[toph-allen]

Yeah, wow. So glad I found this, it was making typing anything in VS Code really painful.

[nhonka-eq]

Agreed is a dumb "feature." Should be reverted.

[heofthetea]

Right-clicking doesn't actually work on linux. After conducting some search through the settings, there are two configurations regarding the hints for inline chats. Setting those to false in my settings.json fixed the issue for me:

"accessibility.verbosity.inlineChat": false,
 "inlineChat.lineNaturalLanguageHint": false,

EDIT: I just noticed the first of these options is not actually needed to stop this behaviour. The configuration

"inlineChat.lineNaturalLanguageHint": false

on its own suffices.

[Firgrep]

Thank you! I'm on linux too and this was annoying as hell.

[jamesonsaunders]

Praise be

[peshal-jha-work]

Worked on macos, Cheers!

[levmalcev]

Other people have already answered you but I would like to thank you for your question.
This feature is SO annoying; what a poor UX choice!

[molejnik-bct]

I'm on Linux as well. Interestingly, you can ask Copilot (in vscode's chat) how to disable it and it will tell you how to do it, even provides an interactive button which (when clicked) opens the settings where it is possible to disable the feature.