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1. What is Copilot

Copilot (https://copilot.github.com/) is an AI coding aid powered by Github that provides coding advice based on AI learning during the coding process. In many cases, Copilot can instance complete code with just comments or function names. Copilot is not yet fully open and you need to apply for permission to open it. Visit its official websitehttps://copilot.github.com/To apply for the license, click the “Sign up” button. Once you have signed up, you can use Copilot on Github.

2. Idea Installation Copilot

Requirement: Idea version should be no less than 2021.2Otherwise, the Copilot plugin cannot be searched. After restarting the idea it is ready to use

3. Idea to use Copilot

After installing and rebooting, click tools->Copilot and log in to gitHub to get access to it. strike (on the keyboard)Cop and Open Copy the device code here for authorization

3.1 Code Completion

Copilot completes the entire line and automatically fills it with the parameter Copilot also automatically recognizes the workbook variable and its getSheetAt method as it appears in the above article, with no problems with syntax errors. Although the complementation worked better in the previous example and there were no problems with syntax errors, Copilot still generates code snippets with syntax errors in many cases. As shown in the figure below, the StringUtils class is created in the local project, and there is only one readTestFile method under the class, yet Copilot generates the print method because Copilot learns from hundreds of millions of open source code and can’t learn the code information of the local project in a timely manner, so essentially like TabNine it is There will be syntax error problems, just that the probability of error is smaller because the model is more powerful, but once the local engineering code is involved, the probability of error will be very high.

4. Shortcut Keys

Copilot also provides some shortcuts that can be easily used.

JetBrains IDE

Keyboard shortcuts for macOS

act	shortcuts
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc
Show next inline suggestions	Option (⌥) or Alt+]
Show last inline suggestion	Option (⌥) or Alt+[
Trigger inline recommendations	Option (⌥)+\
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Option (⌥) or Alt+Return

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

act	shortcuts
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc
Show next inline suggestions	Alt+]
Show last inline suggestion	Alt+[
Trigger inline recommendations	Alt+\
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Alt+Enter

Keyboard Shortcuts for Linux

act	shortcuts
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc
Show next inline suggestions	Alt+]
Show last inline suggestion	Alt+[
Trigger inline recommendations	Alt+\
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Alt+Enter

Visual Studio Code IDE

Keyboard shortcuts for macOS

act	shortcuts	command name
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab	MIT editor. Action.inlineSuggest.com
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc	editor.action.inlineSuggest.hide
Show next inline suggestions	Option (⌥)+]	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showNext
Show last inline suggestion	Option (⌥)+[	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showPrevious
Trigger inline recommendations	Option (⌥)+\	Editor. Action. InlineSuggest. The trigger
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Ctrl+Return	github.copilot.generate
Turning GitHub Copilot on/off	No default shortcut	github.copilot.toggleCopilot

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

act	shortcuts	command name
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab	MIT editor. Action.inlineSuggest.com
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc	editor.action.inlineSuggest.hide
Show next inline suggestions	Alt+]	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showNext
Show last inline suggestion	Alt+[	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showPrevious
Trigger inline recommendations	Alt+\	Editor. Action. InlineSuggest. The trigger
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Ctrl+Enter	github.copilot.generate
Turning GitHub Copilot on/off	No default shortcut	github.copilot.toggleCopilot

Keyboard Shortcuts for Linux

act	shortcuts	command name
Acceptance of inreach recommendations	Tab	MIT editor. Action.inlineSuggest.com
Rejection of inline recommendations	Esc	editor.action.inlineSuggest.hide
Show next inline suggestions	Alt+]	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showNext
Show last inline suggestion	Alt+[	editor.action.inlineSuggest.showPrevious
Trigger inline recommendations	Alt+\	Editor. Action. InlineSuggest. The trigger
Open GitHub Copilot (other suggestions in a separate pane)	Ctrl+Enter	github.copilot.generate
Turning GitHub Copilot on/off	No default shortcut	github.copilot.toggleCopilot

5. Other intelligent code completion tools

TabNine supports the widest variety of languages and IDEs, and has a high memory footprint in native mode;
AliCloud Cosy's code search function is more practical and can be used with other tools;
Kite is only for Python developers, and the complement is not really amazing;
Codota is no longer maintained and can be disregarded;
IntelliCode is not very practical and might be integrated with GitHub Copilot in the future;
AIXcoder is middling and lacks flair;