Allow Copilot style #selection context

[SeanBannister]

In GitHub Copilot you can select some text in a file and then in the chat type #selection to reference that as context. I find this really useful as a way to point to exactly what you're talking about or tell the model exactly what you want edited.

They also have a similar command #terminalContext for referencing items selected in the terminal.

I'd love to see this as a feature in Kilo.

[markijbema]

Are you aware of the feature in the context menu (available in both code and terminal)?

I think this is actually better because you can add multiple contexts. Or is there some usecase I'm missing where the explicit reference works better?

[SeanBannister]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. And that meets my use case.

Just for reference Copilot does allow multiple contexts:

It does things slightly different and doesn't include the code in the chat. I presume it includes the code when it send it to the model behind the scenes. This can be a little nicer when referencing large amounts of code, but I bet other people prefer having all the context visible.