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Chat 1.2.0 Limitations and Known Issues

Copilot4Eclipse-Chat (Chat) is a new feature set of Copilot4Eclipse that we are actively developing.

Following are the feature limitiations, restrictions or incompleteness for Copilot4Eclipse 1.2.0.

1. Chat Panel - Singleton​

There can only be 1 Chat Panel instance in the workspace. If a user attempts to open a second Chat Panel a warning will be presented.

2. Inconsistent Codeblock Syntax Highlighting​

The syntax coloring of code presented in a Chat codeblock may not match that of it's corresponding Eclipse editor. We have optimized for a close similarity between the default Java syntax coloring rules and those of the the Chat codeblock. Improvements are planned for a future update.

3. Chat UI - Course-grained Streamed Responses​

As Copilot streams a response to your prompt the Chat Panel will render blocks of text and code in small chunks rather than a stream of chars that you may be familiar with in some LLM user interfaces. We anticipate providing a streaming response in the near future.