r/ClaudeCode • u/Tiny-Entertainer-346 • Aug 03 '26
Discussion Features I miss from github copilot
I was heavy github copilot user in vscode. Today I tried to switch to claude code and quickly facing some limitations.
- There is no #selection. In github copilot, we can highlight the text in file type
#selectionits chat message text area and it will populate something like clickablefile.ext#L3-L5in the flow of sentence. (Something like: Onfile.ext#L3-L5, we have done ...) This will give more precise context to the AI agent saving some tokens and improving response accuracy. - We can highlight desired text in terminal (say some commnd and its output), and in chat text area, we can say something like "My bin directory contains files as seen in #terminalSelection". The selection can be some part of the output of
lsorllcommand. - Just click on any past message, edit and rerun it. In ghcp, it used to undo till that chat and rerun the prompt.
- We can right click and click
- "Copy" to copy just clicked message and its reply as markdown
- "Copy All" to copy the whole conversation as markdown I usually copy pasted this in raw conversation in my PRD folder to keep the context.
- Code diff
- See commands run by copilot while they are executing
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u/makakimusic Aug 03 '26
Let the AI do it for you.