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Edit Query flow is inconvenient

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Description

Testing #7715

I find it strange that the action is called Edit with Copilot when no actual editing of the setting happens. It just opens the chat view with a pre-populated query. There’s no simple or automatic way to get the result from the chat view back into the quick pick.

I think the ideal flow would be to have an input in the quick pick where you can describe the query in plain language, and the query would then update. I realize this would likely be a lot of work, so I understand why it hasn’t been done.

Suggestion 1: Provide a tool to the agent/chat so it can update the query automatically, or render a button that the user can press to update the query.

Suggestion 2: Open settings.json file, select the query to configure in the settings file and open inline chat with the prompt Modify it so that it captures all PRs which have. This will lead to the query being updated without the user having to copy paste and allowing the quick pick to not have to stay open.

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