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by noizz 1380 days ago
I spent most of the trial hating Copilot and the way takes over my Tab key in Jetbrains software. It got in the way a bit too much. Every time I tried to use emmet shortcuts, live template triggers or anything muscle memory related, it would bring something else, so I had to undo, press Esc a couple of times and then continue with whatever I actually wanted.

However, every now and then, there came a typed object or something mundane and Copilot exceled at it, so I decided that I want to find a way for it to coexist in a way that's as easy to use as pressing Tab to expand it. Lo and behold - I found an unused key below Tab (AKA caps lock), remapped it and now it doesn't get in the way and I can use Copilot's help only when I want.

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In pycharm where indentation is key and you want to bring the current line into the current scope, it will just autofill the copilot suggestion which you then have to remove again. So annoying.