This document outlines the chat features that Gemini Code Assist supports.
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You can perform the following chat actions with Gemini Code Assist in any of the supported IDEs :
- Use Gemini Code Assist to explain your code
- Create multiple chats
- Edit a prior prompt
- Regenerate a prompt response
- Delete prompt and response pairs
- Configure code preview pane
- Prompt Gemini Code Assist with selected code using chat
- Add selected code snippets to context
- Add terminal output to the chat context
- Specify files and folders in your workspace context
- Revert to a checkpoint in chat
- View code diffs
- Create custom commands
- Create rules
- Exclude files from your context with an
.aiexcludeor.gitignorefile - Use the Gemini Code Assist agent mode
- Configure local codebase awareness
What's next
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Set up Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise , if you haven't already.
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To begin using Gemini Code Assist chat features in your IDE, see Chat with Gemini Code Assist .
