Stop scrolling to bottom when chat is reopened

[ataha322]

Basically the title.
I think it makes sense as a sane default, given that jumping to bottom is 1-2 key presses away, but could be a configurable option too.
This is especially needed when using chat as a float window.
Please correct me if this is already configurable.

[nishantpillai5]

This might be what you are looking for.

require("CopilotChat").setup {
  auto_follow_cursor = false,
}

[ataha322]

yeah it's useful to turns this off, but that's not what I meant.
Basically, when you reopen that chat window it'll jump to the bottom. I wanted to prevent this so that the chat window is viewed right where I left.

[ataha322]

So I realized this isn't the plugin problem in particular, this is just how it works with default neovim/vim behaviour when you change buffers. With regular buffers - the view will change so that the cursor line is centered. With copilot chat for some reason it's viewed at the bottom.

For both cases I have this solution in my config:

-- Save and restore window view when switching buffers
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufLeave' }, {
    callback = function(args)
        if vim.bo[args.buf].buftype == '' or vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(args.buf):match('copilot%-chat') then
            vim.b[args.buf].view = vim.fn.winsaveview()
        end
    end
})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufEnter' }, {
    callback = function(args)
        if vim.b[args.buf].view ~= nil then
            vim.fn.winrestview(vim.b[args.buf].view)
        end
    end
})