A bug and advices on menu Ask Continue

[dbsxdbsx]

Versions

• OS: win10
• Continue:v0.8.40
• IDE: vscode 1.90

Validations

• 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

When taking the quick fix menu "Ask Continue" on an issued line, it does open a side chat view, but usually with the older chat context, if there was an older chat before:

Solution

1. bug fix: Whatever there is an old chat, the "Ask Continue" should always contain only the issue-related context and output solution automatically without the user input enter again;
2. optional improvement advice(basic): I would prefer the action of "Ask Continue" would directly fix the issued line of code, just like that of Microsoft copilot;
3. optional improvement advice(more radical): sometimes, there are many issued parts on the page of code(even multiple issued parts in a line!), then what if we make a new menu called fix ALL by Continue, so that Continue can try to fix all the issues with more complete context with the full page code and outputs a more global-context consistent solution, be it output in the side chat view with an explanation or directly overwrite the page file code.

[sestinj]

I definitely agree with (1), and (2) is something we used to have, but maybe worth trying again.

(3) sounds like a really cool experimental feature. Will try this, maybe even at the project level at some point!

[dbsxdbsx]

at the project level at some point!

This reminds me of the time when I coded with C# with ReSharper in Visual Studio---this extension does have a feature to diagnose the whole project.