Allow to pause copilot work

[laeubi]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Sometimes thing go in wrong direction but there is no way to pause and give additional inf/instructions in such case.

Proposed solution

Currently I can steer copilot during a session by entering some text and submit.

This works, but has some short comings:

1. if copilot wants to ask permissions the prompt window goes away while typing
2. Copilot is working and maybe doing other stuff and its hard to keep up as new text arrives in the meanwhile
3. If it is some lengthy task one is out of luck - example I need to fix an external build issue or install a certain tool version (java, maven, npm package, ...)

The other option is to completely cancel the operation what is also not good as then copilot has to keep up with what was previously done.

Instead, it would be good if copilot session could be paused (e.g. typing /pause) and it then waits, then I can install things, add directories or prepare a response and send it and then type /resume to let it continue.

Example prompts or workflows

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Additional context

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[pWoLiAn]

Just hit Esc, do what you want to do and then prompt continue

[laeubi]

Just hit Esc, do what you want to do and then prompt continue

From my experience this is not the same... this most often results in "Lets look what was already done... I need to check this or that ... lets see if the git is clean or unstaged files ... I need to find out XYZ ..."

[pWoLiAn]

maybe it depends on the model because it never does that for me on opus 4.6. continues right where it left off.

[rogerbarreto]

I just created this issue but I think we both are looking for the same thing.

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