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Configure GitHub Copilot settings for individual users

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Configure GitHub Copilot settings for individual users

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- GitHub Copilot user settings. Well, everything in VS code is JSON. So you can see a JSON snippet at right that shows GitHub.Copilot. Absolutely, you want to dive into the settings that the GitHub Copilot extension gives you in your IDE. You want to look at changing key bindings. We definitely, this is so cool, have custom instructions now available for the longest time in GitHub Copilot that wasn't there. It is and it is wonderful, and I'm going to teach you all about it. This is going to make sure that GitHub Copilot understands your coding conventions and your coding style. And also depending upon where you scope those custom instructions, they may be available for you globally or more typically per repo or per workspace. Extensions are important in VS code or your other supported IDE, not only for your languages and your frameworks and your quality of life as a developer, but GitHub Copilot uses the APIs here, GitHub API. And there's a separate one for VS Code to load in…

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