Visible Studio Code provides ‘Hey Code’ voice command

Visible Studio Code 1.86, the January 2024 launch of Microsoft’s code editor, introduces a voice command, “Hey Code,” that begins a session with Copilot Chat. The brand new launch additionally brings per-window zoom ranges.

Unveiled February 1, Visible Studio Code 1.86 could be downloaded for Home windows, Linux, or Mac on the visualstudio.com web site. 

A brand new accessibility.voice.keywordActivation setting permits Visible Studio Code to hear for the “Hey Code” voice command to begin a voice session with Copilot Chat, providing a chat interface. Microsoft famous that the voice recognition is computed regionally on the consumer’s machine and never despatched to any servers. Extensions are required together with GitHub Copilot Chat, which supplies AI programming help by a conversational interface, and VS Code Speech, which provides speech-to-text capabilities.

With per-window zoom ranges, enabled through window.zoom.PerWindow, lets builders configure zoom instructions to use solely to the lively window and never all open home windows. Microsoft believes utilizing zoom instructions might be principally advert hoc, comparable to when giving a presentation, so ought to apply solely to the window they’re invoked from.

Elsewhere in VS Code 1.86, triggered breakpoints could be set which can be routinely enabled as soon as one other breakpoint is hit. For instance, this can be utilized when diagnosing failure instances in code that occur after a sure precondition. Triggered breakpoints work for all languages.

VS Code 1.86 follows VS Code 1.85, which arrived in December and featured floating home windows. Two subsequent updates to VS Code 1.85, variations 1.85.1 and 1.85.2, have been launched with fixes, together with updating Electron 25 builds.

Different new options in Visible Studio Code 1.86:

• The multi-file diff editor now’s enabled for all customers. It lets customers view adjustments throughout a number of information in a single scrollable view.
• Sticky Scroll has been prolonged to all tree views, enabling simpler navigation of mission timber. It’s restricted to 40% of view top.
• Customers can paste a URL to routinely create a Markdown hyperlink. And when customers paste a URL right into a Markdown file with textual content chosen, VS Code now routinely inserts a Markdown hyperlink.
• A brand new setting, scm.enter.MinLineCount, can be utilized to regulate the preliminary top of the commit enter area.
• Extra fine-grained notification is obtainable for disabling notifications coming from extensions.
• All Auto Save settings now could be configured per folder or language, which lets customers selectively allow Auto Save just for particular languages or folders. A brand new information.autoSaveWhenNoErrors setting lets Auto Save be disabled if there are error markers within the file when Auto Save usually would save the editor.
• Assist for the beta model of the TypeScript 5.4 language is being previewed.
• The Python Debugger extension now’s put in by default alongside the Python extension.