Have been using Posit Assistant with both RStudio and Positron for a while now. Overall I like it a lot and the agentic coding has been a game-changer (I do have a few minor suggestions but that can wait). My experience with the in-line suggestions is, however, not been the best.
My biggest complaint is that it's really hard to control.
- Sometimes it says it has a suggestion but I couldn't see it
- It overrides the backspace button and I often end up unintentionally deleting a whole paragraph I've written. It also overrides the cursor for some reason and I couldn't edit text in places anymore.
- It doesn't seem to allow me to accept suggestions word by word (or did I miss something?)
- The quality of suggestions are not quite up to standard compared to Github copilot, so I end up pressing ESC a lot.
For comparison, the UI of inline suggestions in the Github copilot + VS code setup seems much more intuitive (the only minor issue I had with that one is sometimes I want TAB to work as TAB instead of "accept suggestion"). Is it possible for Posit Assistant to model the UI of its inline suggestions after that?