Add ability to turn auto-complete off for certain files or file types

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I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement

Problem

There are particular files or file types where I don't want Continue to provide auto-complete suggestions because there is little chance of the suggestions being helpful (e.g. when writing prose or code in obscure domain specific languages) and I don't want to waste resources on unhelpful suggestions.

Solution

A setting with a list of globs that match files to be ignored, e.g. **/*.md or .env. Continue.dev does not provide auto-completion for these files.

It has already here. See "disableInFiles".

So config will have:

 "tabAutocompleteOptions": {
    "disableInFiles": [
      "*.md", ".env"
    ]
  }

It should automatically migrate in Pre-Release version of Continue in Settings tab as described by docs.

Thanks! I hadn't found that in the docs for some reason.

For any future searchers, this is now in the User Settings

Disable autocomplete in files

Must use a glob format. This appears to work

**/*.txt, **/*.md

The comment here points to old documentation that only mentions "autocompleteOptions" that are per agent.

I found this

Disable autocomplete in files: List of comma-separated glob pattern to disable autocomplete in matching files. E.g., ”_/.md, */.txt”

Here:

https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/autocomplete#customize-autocomplete-user-settings-in-the-continue-extension

But in Visual Studio Code the Continue extension (version 1.2.3) doesn't have that option. I opened the JSON file and used continue. to explore all the options in the installed extension and the only option I saw that was relevant was continue.enableTabAutocomplete that allowed for true and false.

This is painful enough for the markdown files I'm editing I'm just going to disable the extension

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Add ability to turn auto-complete off for certain files or file types #4053

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