Question

A backend developer is deep in an IDE editing a payment-processing module and hits an unfamiliar third-party SDK method. She wants to understand what the method does and see a usage example without leaving her editor, opening a browser, or losing her cursor position and unsaved edits. Which approach best uses GitHub Copilot to reduce context switching in this situation?

Accepted Answer

Select the method call and use Copilot inline chat (or the Copilot chat panel with the file open) to ask what the method does and request a usage example, keeping the answer alongside her code.

Answer

Switch to a browser, search the SDK's official documentation site, and copy an example back into the editor.

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Open a new terminal, run the GitHub CLI to authenticate, and query the SDK reference through a scripted command.

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Commit her current work-in-progress to a scratch branch so she can safely open the SDK's source files in a separate window to read them.