Now, I already mentioned that one extra participant you can add to the chat is the terminal to
ask questions about how to do something in the terminal.
For example, here I could ask how to use Git to manage this project.
So how can I use Git to manage this project?
Now here I am actually already using Git, but if I weren't, I could ask about the command
I need to run to use it.
And of course here it's a very simple command in the end.
I could also, of course, ask any other kind of terminal related question, like how can
I run this Python code?
And again, it will generate a command in the terminal.
Now here, for me, maybe not for you, but for me, it actually put in this placeholder,
which is not too helpful.
I want to have the specific command to run this file.
So I can ask again, no, I want to run this specific file.
And it understands here that I'm talking about the file I have open in my editor and it tweaks
this command.
Now here it then gives me a button to insert this into the terminal.
So if I hit enter, it does that.
I still have to hit enter myself though.
And that's a good thing because especially when running commands in the terminal, you
should always double check them to make sure you're not accidentally deleting your operating
system or something like this.
So here I'm happy.
I can hit enter and go ahead and run this.
So that works.
And that's another very useful way of using this chat that you can ask about the terminal.
But you can do even more because in your terminal, you also can use the inline chat.
So the inline chat now not in the code editor, but instead in the terminal.
And therefore, of course, as you can also see here, it tries to generate terminal commands.
So I could again say run this file.
And it does not understand that I'm referring to this Python file.
So neither that it's Python nor this file, at least right now when I'm running this.
So I can try again, discard this, reopen it, run this Python file db backup.py.
If I hit enter, I got a little display problem here.
So now this looks better.
I can now insert this or immediately run it if I evaluated it.
But it actually fails because Python 3 would have been correct here.
But maybe it did work for you or it suggested the right command for you.
Either way, you can also generate terminal commands right from inside the terminal with
this inline chat, which of course can also be very useful because it saves you the extra
hassle of opening the sidebar, typing everything in here and then running the command from
in here.
Though that's, of course, also a fine option.
But the most important thing is to know about these features because they can also help
you work with the terminal more efficiently.
They can save you some time you otherwise might need to Google for a certain command
you want to run.
And therefore, ultimately, they can add to your efficiency and speed as a developer.