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Question: Can we suggest one line at a time #279
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Is / are there setting(s) that make Copilot only suggest a line at at time? I have a hacky config that achieves this but even then it doesn't do what I would prefer which is only ghost inline whatever completion lands on the current line number I am on, even if it may be incomplete.
I.e.
variable I want to write:
let foo = bar
.moo
.baz
.ok_or_else(|| format!("hello"))
.await;What I want Copilot to do:
let foo = bar
.moo
// .baz <---- cursor is here, copilot only suggests the completion of baz instead of entire variable
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[-]Suggest one line at a time[/-][+]Question: Can we suggest one line at a time[/+]yermulnik commentedon Apr 22, 2026
If it might fit your need, you can accept Copilot suggestion only partially — by word or by line — rather than accepting whole thing. See https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/doc/copilot.txt#L196-L203
You also can remap these to another key combination at your discretion.
cachebag commentedon Apr 22, 2026
@yermulnik This works fine but I still get the noise of the rest of the suggestion. I think it's probably a Copilot quirk, not necessarily a vim/nvim specifc thing that can fix. Although I guess you can simply render [0] of whatever the len() lines is of a suggestion batch.
Thank you anyway!