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So, the suggestions feature built into Cursor, where it tries to predict where to make code

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edits next, can be really powerful.

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But it's not all Cursor has to offer.

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Like GitHub Copilot, it also offers a chat.

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And like GitHub Copilot, you get two kinds of chat.

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You get an inline chat in the end, which you can open by pressing Command or Control K

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or whichever shortcuts are shown to you here.

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If you highlight some code, it opens this pop-up.

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This is the inline chat for editing instructions right in the editor.

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You can actually choose an AI model here, at least at the point of time where I'm recording

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this, but I'll go with the default one.

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And you can write your instructions here and then also add some extra context.

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You can hit the add symbol to, for example, reference a file, some other code, some documentation.

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Cursor has built-in documentation and you can also add more.

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I'll get back to that.

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You can add web search here really easy by bringing in the web as a resource and so on.

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Here, however, I don't need any of that.

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I'll just say add error handling and hit enter.

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And now it does just that.

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It updates the code, removes some code, adds some new code to handle errors.

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And just as with GitHub Copilot, we can accept these changes by pressing the button or using

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the shortcut or we can, of course, also reject them.

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Here I'll accept them.

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We could do this for other parts of the code as well.

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You can, of course, also highlight multiple functions in one go, for example.

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All that is possible and therefore this is kind of similar to what you had with GitHub

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Copilot, but nonetheless, it's a very powerful feature, especially since you have lots of

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extra resources.

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You can bring in extra files, specific parts of your code, specific function, for example,

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that it should take into account, which can be helpful if it's a bigger code file with

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lots of code in there and especially also the web and docs.

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And it's the docs part we'll explore next.