Rejecting suggestions when attempting to tab in pycharm

[brockhaywood]

One bit of annoying behaviour that I have encountered in pycharm is when starting a new line and copilot has a suggestion.

If i don't want to accept the suggestion, I hit escape to ignore it which works great. But if i then need to tab a couple of times to get to the right place on the line (say from 3rd tab to 4th tab .. or col 13 -> 17), the suggestions get repeated. If i have to tab many times (like when starting from col 0), this gets irritating.

[jansorg]

Would you expect that completion don't show up at all for the current line after pressing escape?

The next update will improve TAB handling to match the VSCode plugin's behaviour. Then, pressing TAB will only insert a suggestions if it's right before the text cursor.

As a workaround you could either change the shortcut from TAB to something else (Preferences > Keymap > Plugins > GitHub Copilot) or turn off automatic completions (Preferences > Languages & Frameworks > GitHub Copilot).

[hiramcopy5]

Hi @jansorg. Is the TAB handling improved already? I'm working with Copilot 1.1.3.139 and still it's inserting the suggestion:

Thx

[jansorg]

@hiramcopy5 Yes, the recent versions include changes to TAB handling. But it seems that there's a regression, we're looking into it now.

[brockhaywood]

Awesome. Will try those workarounds. Thanks!

Yeah, i think if i have ignored a suggestion and not not made any other changes (which aren't whitespace) i would not expect a new suggestion until i do something "meaningful".

[edi-spaghetti]

This still seems to be an issue for me, I'm using v1.2.8.2631 of copilot on pycharm 2023.1.2

Edit: after a while I found that pressing the 'end' key will take you to the next logical indent anyway, so that can be used to circumvent the tab completion where it's not wanted. Slightly less convenient, but better than the tab esc tab esc tab esc shenanigans I started with :)

[seankfh]

I just wrestled with this for a few minutes and agree it is still an issue. Escape helps but it only gets you to the next keystroke.

[lawrencek1992]

If you use the ideavim plugin, it's a nightmare, as esc also exits edit mode, which is not something I want to change.

[ExTexan]

The problem boils down to a single key (Tab) being assigned to two different functions. There's really no way to make that work well. My solution (also suggested above by @jansorg) was to change the shortcut associated with Copilot. I'm on a Mac, which has an "Option" key, so I used Option-\ (backslash), which I can easily select with thumb and forefinger of my right hand. This has worked out great for me.