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Remove shortcut for opening Copilot suggestions pane#43919

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@jessehouwing jessehouwing commented Apr 22, 2026

Removed the 'Open Copilot (additional suggestions in separate pane)' shortcut for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

This feature has been removed from all copilot extensions some time ago.

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Removed the 'Open Copilot (additional suggestions in separate pane)' shortcut for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

This feature has been removed from all copilot extensions some time ago.
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Pull request overview

Removes outdated keyboard shortcuts for opening the separate Copilot suggestions pane across supported IDE shortcut tables, reflecting that the feature was removed from Copilot extensions.

Changes:

  • Removed the “Open GitHub Copilot (additional suggestions in separate pane)” shortcut rows for JetBrains IDEs (macOS/Windows/Linux).
  • Removed the corresponding VS Code shortcut rows and the github.copilot.generate command entry (macOS/Windows/Linux).

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