Implicit Context for Current Buffer

[MartinLoeper]

It would be great to have a command like CodeCompanionBufferChat which takes into account the current buffer as context - similar to vscode.
see: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/chat/copilot-chat-context#_implicit-context

I find myself typing #{buffer} @{insert_edit_into_file} far too often. Is there any way to automate his to get more kind of vscode copilot chat experience.

[olimorris]

You could write an autocmd that updates the context on the chat buffer and/or even adds it as a reference.

[Eckii24]

I was also thinking, that's maybe a good idea. Was about to comment like that when I realized, we can already do that!!

Just define a prompt, which has already the required tools inside and assign this prompt to whatever keymap to start CodeCompanion. This would at least solve my usecase.

[olimorris]

The other point I should have made in my earlier post is that we use a standard Vim buffer in CodeCompanion. That gives users the niceties of working with a Vim like experience but also makes implementing UI elements that would be tied to features like implicit context, somewhat difficult. We could hide everything in gd but that's then another mapping and window away.

There's a really fine balance between adding a feature such as this (which btw, I think is totally valid) and not detracting from the UI/UX.