Revised chat input placeholder text (microsoft#256554)

* Revised chat input placeholder text

* revised placeholder text and removed @ button in ask mode

* fix merge conflict

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Co-authored-by: Justin Chen <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Your Name <[email protected]>

Author: eli-w-king

src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/actions/chatActions.ts

@@ -915,6 +915,7 @@ export function registerChatActions() {
 					id: MenuId.ChatExecute,
 					when: ContextKeyExpr.and(
 						ChatContextKeys.chatModeKind.isEqualTo(ChatModeKind.Ask),
+						ContextKeyExpr.not('config.chat.emptyChatState.enabled'),
 						ChatContextKeys.lockedToCodingAgent.negate()
 					),
 					group: 'navigation',

src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/contrib/chatInputEditorContrib.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { IChatAgentCommand, IChatAgentData, IChatAgentService } from '../../comm
 import { chatSlashCommandBackground, chatSlashCommandForeground } from '../../common/chatColors.js';
 import { ChatRequestAgentPart, ChatRequestAgentSubcommandPart, ChatRequestSlashCommandPart, ChatRequestSlashPromptPart, ChatRequestTextPart, ChatRequestToolPart, ChatRequestToolSetPart, IParsedChatRequestPart, chatAgentLeader, chatSubcommandLeader } from '../../common/chatParserTypes.js';
 import { ChatRequestParser } from '../../common/chatRequestParser.js';
-import { ChatModeKind } from '../../common/constants.js';
 import { IChatWidget } from '../chat.js';
 import { ChatWidget } from '../chatWidget.js';
 import { dynamicVariableDecorationType } from './chatDynamicVariables.js';
@@ -133,11 +132,7 @@ class InputEditorDecorations extends Disposable {
 			const mode = this.widget.input.currentModeObs.get();
 			let description = mode.description.get();
 			if (this.configurationService.getValue<boolean>('chat.emptyChatState.enabled')) {
-				if (mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Ask) {
-					description += ` ${localize('askPlaceholderHint', "# to add context, @ for extensions, / for commands")}`;
-				} else if (mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Edit || mode.kind === ChatModeKind.Agent) {
-					description += ` ${localize('editPlaceholderHint', "# to add context")}`;
-				}
+				description = localize('chatPlaceholderHint', "Add Context (#), Extensions (@), Commands (/)");
 			}
 
 			const decoration: IDecorationOptions[] = [

src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/common/chatModes.ts

@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ export class BuiltinChatMode implements IChatMode {
 export namespace ChatMode {
 	export const Ask = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Ask, 'Ask', localize('chatDescription', "Ask a question."));
 	export const Edit = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Edit, 'Edit', localize('editsDescription', "Edit files."));
-	export const Agent = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Agent, 'Agent', localize('agentDescription', "Build autonomously."));
+	export const Agent = new BuiltinChatMode(ChatModeKind.Agent, 'Agent', localize('agentDescription', "Provide instructions."));
 }
 
 export function isBuiltinChatMode(mode: IChatMode): boolean {