microsoft
Provide a nice way for webviews to hook into editor features
The GitHub Pull Request Extension makes use of webviews to show a PR description:
As you can see, there's an input box for a comment. That comment box would greatly benefit from being able to show editor completions. Link detection and hovers would also be nice to have.
Currently, the best way to get editor completions would be to embed a monaco editor in the webview; however, this could provide a strange experience for the user since it will look like a VS Code editor, but behave differently. It's also a lot of work for an extension author.
Ideally, there'd be a simple way to embed a VS Code editor within a webview. Then, all the user's shortcuts, completions, hovers, etc. would work exactly the same as they do in any VS Code editor.
YES PLEASE! 😁
At some point in the past @joaomoreno and I talked about maybe creating a web component type model where VS Code would register an "editor" web component that webview's could use -- which would inject a VS Code editor
becomes more relevant with the rise of co-pilot - not working in the current text editor
