[Help Wanted]: Xcode plugin gives exteremely poor suggestions in comparison to VSCode. What am I doing wrong? about copilotforxcode

[intitni]

1. Generating code with comment
   Try to give it more hints that the next line is code. For example,

• add an empty line after the comment:

  // do something
  
  // cursor here

• instruct it to generate code

  // a function to do something
  // cursor here

  or

  // do something
  func// cursor here

2. Broken code
   Currently, GitHub Copilot has the ability to generate suggestions based on the opened files in the same workspace. In order for GitHub Copilot to detect an opened file, language server notifications need to be sent to the language server when a file is opened. It sounds simple, but Copilot for Xcode can't get those notifications from Xcode. As a result, it can only detect that a file is opened when the user manually switches to the tab of the file and clicks into the file (to change focused element, if you are opening a file from the side bar) for the first time.
   Additionally, if a file is already open prior to the extension launch, the user will also need to switch to the file manually in order for it to recognize that it is open.

[eldare]

Thank you for the quick response, it's very helpful indeed.

If I understand correctly number 2, if I work on something that depends on 10 other files, and I open all those files, that should be enough to improve copilot results?

[intitni]

Theoretically, yes, but sometimes even with the other files opened, GitHub Copilot can still generate incorrect suggestions even in VSCode.

[eldare]

Thank you 🙏