Editing

Maintaining an up-to-date library of code snippets in the Pieces for VS Code Extension is made easy through seamless editing.

How to Edit Snippets

To modify an existing snippet, follow these steps:

Open the Pieces Drive

Open the Pieces Drive via the VS Code sidebar

Start Editing the Snippet

Locate a snippet you want to edit and select Edit from the quick menu or right click the snippet and select Edit from the menu

Edit your Snippet

Make your changes, then save using ⌘+s (macOS) or ctrl+s (Windows/Linux)

After saving, the editor will automatically return to the main snippet view, with your changes applied instantly.

Actions from the Pieces Drive View

When you left-click on a saved snippet in the Pieces Drive, you are presented with a tool menu filled with Pieces functionalities—some of which are related to the Pieces Copilot, and others which are designated material management actions.

Pieces Copilot Actions

To access the material management view, select one of the snippets from Pieces Drive. From this view, you can select a number of Copilot-centric actions—view them in the table below.

`Add to Copilot Context`	Adds the snippet to the context of your existing Copilot Chat conversation.
`Ask Copilot`	Triggers the input modal and lets you type a prompt directly into the field without changing your active file view.
`Insert at Cursor`	Inserts the code snippet at the point of your cursor inside your active file.
`Shareable Links`	Shows shareable links that have been generated for that snippet, if applicable.

Material Management Actions

Below the Pieces Copilot actions, you can easily change a snippet’s name, description, classification, and other enriched metadata—view them in the table below.

`Annotations`	Add, adjust or delete annotations for the snippet.
`Related Links`	Add or remove links to the snippet’s metadata.
`Tags`	Add or remove tags to the snippet’s metadata.
`Reclassify`	Set your own custom snippet classification.
`Edit Selected Material`	Edit the content of the snippet.
`Rename`	Change the name (title) of the snippet as it appears in your repository of saved materials.
`Delete`	Delete the snippet.

Additional Tools while Editing

Layers upon layers of functionality—that’s the goal of all Pieces for Developers plugins and extensions.

When you edit a snippet (by locating it in the Pieces Drive menu and clicking Edit), every single bit of Pieces functionality is available to you, even though you are in a view that’s removed from your main file.

Instead, the Edit view becomes your main file, so you can generate code comments, debug, add it to context, and more.