How to Configure#

1. Open Settings with Ctrl + ,
2. Search for github.copilot.enable
3. Click “Edit in settings.json”
4. Set the languages you want to disable to false

Example settings.json#

{
  "github.copilot.enable": {
    "*": true,
    "plaintext": false,
    "markdown": false,
    "scminput": false
  }
}

• "*": true → Enabled for all languages by default
• "plaintext": false → Disabled for plain text
• "markdown": false → Disabled for Markdown
• "scminput": false → Disabled for Git commit message input

To disable specific programming languages, use VS Code language identifiers:

{
  "github.copilot.enable": {
    "*": true,
    "yaml": false,
    "jsonc": false
  }
}