Neural Copilot

Neural Copilot is an open source extension for Visual Studio Code that serves as your AI programming assistant. It supports the following features:

• 📝 Autocomplete-style code suggestions as you write code.
• 💬 Get properly highlighted code and streaming answers to your prompts in sidebar conversation window.
• ➡️ Copy or replace code from conversation with just one click, NeuralChat is suggesting right into your editor.

Background Introduction

Neural Copilot

Neural Copilot is an open source extension for Visual Studio Code. By leveraging powerful code understanding and generation capabilities, Neural Copliot can deeply understand your code and provide reliable solutions to your problems, thereby significantly improving development efficiency.

Neural Copilot Usage

Customize

You can configure the backend URL in the settings. At the same time, Neural Chat enables users to input their corresponding sensitive information and tokens in the user settings according to their own needs. This customization enhances the accuracy and output content to better meet individual requirements.

Code suggestion

The simplest way to trigger code suggestion is typing # {your keyword} (start with your programming language's comment keyword, like # in Python and // in C++). Make sure Inline Suggest is enabled from the VS Code Settings. For example:

To provide programmers with a smooth experience, Neural Copilot supports multiple ways to trigger inline code suggestions. If you are interested in the details, they are summarized as follows:

1. Generate code from single-line comments: The simplest way introduced before.
2. Generate code from consecutive single-line comments:

3. Generate code from multi-line comments, which will not be triggered until there is at least one space outside the multi-line comment):

4. Automatically complete multi-line comments:

Chat with AI assistant

You can start a conversation with the AI programming assistant by clicking on the robot icon in the plugin bar on the left:

Then you can see the conversation window on the left, where you can chat with AI assistant:

In this area you can take advantage of the following features:

1. Enter and submit your question
2. Browse your previous questions
3. Get answers from AI assistant (Code will be highlighted properly according to the programming language it is written in, also support streaming output)
4. Copy or replace code with one click (Note that you need to select the code in the editor first and then click "replace", otherwise the code will be inserted)
5. Clear previous chat history

You can also select the code in the editor and ask AI assistant question about it.

For example:

1. Select code

2. Ask question and get answer