GitHub Copilot CLI Gets Tabs and No-Config-File Tool Setup in Redesigned Terminal UI
GitHub has updated its Copilot CLI with a redesigned terminal interface featuring tabbed navigation and a simplified, no-config-file tool setup. The update enhances developer productivity by allowing direct interaction with GitHub issues and pull requests within the command line.
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Improved developer tooling and AI integration in terminal environments streamline software development workflows and increase the efficiency of coding tasks.
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An interactive Copilot CLI session now presents tabs across the top of the screen. Developers press Tab to move between the default Session tab and a Gists tab for personal gists, and running the CLI inside a repository adds Issues and Pull requests tabs scoped to that repository. Highlighting an issue or pull request and pressing c drops a reference into the prompt, so Copilot can be asked to investigate, fix, comment on, or review it; pressing o opens the highlighted item on GitHub in the browser, and pressing / on the Issues or Pull requests tab searches GitHub with a custom query. Tabs can also be selected with the mouse and reordered, hidden, or turned off entirely from settings.
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