VSCE: New Chat History view in quick pick

[abeatrix]

To help people stay in the code editing flow, we want to allow people to quickly navigate to chats from an existing chat editor window, without having to re-open the Cody sidebar view.

Design

It would need a new "Cody: Chats" command that shows a quickpick, and an editor title command button in chat views.

New "Cody: Chats" command

• Sorted by chat.updated
• Grouped by relative chat.updated time (see logic below)
• Search filtering based on title (default quickpick search/filering)

The logic for those separator groupings would be the following (but toLowerCase()’d):

if (chat.updated < 24 hours ago)  return "Today"
if (chat.updated < 48 hours ago)  return "Yesterday"
if (chat.updated < 1 week ago)    return "${n} days ago"
if (chat.updated < 2 weeks ago)   return "Last week"
if (chat.updated < 1 month ago)   return "${n} weeks ago"
if (chat.updated < 2 months ago)  return "Last month"
if (chat.updated >= 2 months ago) return "${n} months ago"

(we intend on using these same groupings in the chat tree view provider as folders, e.g…)

Editor title command button in chat views

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[deepak2431]

@abeatrix, I can work on this issue. Few questions:

1. How do I enable the magic chat in my dev mode? For me after building the extension, it still opens up the current version.
2. Is there any UI/UX which I can reference? If not, can you please let me know about the expected behaviour?

[deepak2431]

@abeatrix Nvm, I got the first one working for me.

[deepak2431]

@abeatrix I gave some thoughts on this and came to one of the possible UI/UX we can opt for.

Add a new Icon here in the same row as the Chats Panel as "Show History", which, on click, would open a quick pick, same as it is for the custom commands. What do you think of this?

[deepak2431]

@abeatrix @toolmantim Can you please let me know your views on this?

[abeatrix]

From what I remembered, tim wanted a new button in the editor title that would open chat history in quick pick. Or the button will open the sidebar. I actually forgot 😂 will defer to tim to confirm!

[deepak2431]

@abeatrix I see, no problem. Thanks for adding this :)
@toolmantim Can you please confirm about this?

[toolmantim]

Hi @deepak2431! I'm finally put together the details for you in the description to this issue. Let me know if that's clear, or if you've any questions.

[deepak2431]

Hi @toolmantim, Thanks for adding the info for this. Everything is clear to me now for this. I will soon open a PR for this.