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I use Copilot with WebStorm. The suggestions show up right in my code editor, and it's often pretty inconvenient.

I have word-wrap enabled, because I'm not a fan of scrolling horizontally or adding explicit linebreaks for when there's no structural reason to do so. This makes the problem worse, as simply typing a sentence can cause pretty extreme dancing, which makes it hard to focus on what I'm doing, but it's not the only instance of the issue.

For instance, sometimes I'll explore a file and click somewhere, intending to move my cursor with the mouse or arrow keys as I read the code. And boom, a whole half-screen-page of code suggestions appear, entirely obstructing my view of the code. Then I scroll down, start to read the code, and ah, that's an interesting variable. I ought to select it with my mouse (entirely for psychological reasons). Boom, the suggestion that was there before disappears and I've completely lost where I was. Worse yet, my double-click-to-select the variable failed, because as soon as I clicked, everything moved.

This video shows one of the less extreme examples:

webstorm-copilot-word-wrap-dancing.mp4

I really wish there were a way to make Copilot suggestions less intrusive. Maybe a popup, in the way WebStorm's variable name suggestions work. Maybe some sort of sidebar, like Chat. Or maybe it could even be some sort of overlay above the code, but in the IDE equivalent of "position: absolute" so that it doesn't push everything around.

I'm not sure what would work best, but I'm sure that this whole "multiline code showing up right where you were trying to do things and moving everything out of the way" isn't ideal for all use cases.