Backspace, Home and Delete keypresses (possibly others) applied to wrong file in Visual Studio with Copilot 1.94.0.0 installed.

[JocelynSachs]

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Several times now since installing Copilot I've been typing code, pressed backspace to correct a mistake - and nothing seems to happen.

I just had it happen again now. Hammering backspace and delete seemed to do nothing, but I could still type new code.

I then clicked on another open file in VS, and found that all the backspacing and deleting I had been doing had been applied to that file instead, at the place where I had left the cursor.

[rccnw]

Here it is March 2024 and this bug is still happening. Anybody home? This is pretty hard to take. I had no idea the keys were being applied to another file till I read this bug report from 8 months ago. Using GitHub Copilot extension 1.156.0.0 in VS2022 Community

[ayim]

Yikes. @rccnw @JocelynSachs please reach out to me directly at aayim@microsoft.com so that we can schedule a screenshare and collect logs.

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Aaron Yim
Product Manager for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
github: ayim | aayim@microsoft.com

[rccnw]

Sent email, thanks.

[cdrenshaw]

I have the same issue or similar issue... I have the Copilot Chat window docked in Visual Studio. The issue always occurs when I open the window, pin it, and then click Create New Thread. If I have to backspace while typing, it backspaces in whatever open document my cursor was last in which deletes some of my code from wherever the cursor was at. I have to unpin the window and close it, then reopen it and pin it again for backspace to work correctly.

[ayim]

@cdrenshaw please reach out to me via email at aayim@microsoft.com so that we can do a debugging session together.
Let me know your availability early next week.

-A

[cdrenshaw]

Sent. Thanks!

[carlos-quintero]

It happens to me too quite regularly, in the GitHub Copilot Chat normal keys are recognized and text is written, but the backspace key goes to the code window and deletes actual code without noticing it at first glance.

[ayim]

@carlos-quintero we've found the error and in the middle of releasing a fix.
If you're on Visual Studio Preview (17.10 Preview 2 or above), the fix is already in.
We're investigating backporting the fix to 17.9 and 17.8

[jbalinski]

Would also like to see the fix pushed out sooner than later. Copilot chat is near unusable with this issue. I updated to Visual Studio 17.9.7 hoping that it might be fixed but no luck.