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GitHub Copilot – VSCode – Add New File Extensions, File Types, and Programming Languages for Completion

This article is a short description of how to add new file extensions, file types, and new programming languages to your GitHub Copilot extension in VSCode.

Since you are already here I will assume you know what GitHub, VSCode, VSCode Extensions, and VSCode Extension Settings are.

By default the GitHub Copilot Visual Studio Code Extension does not have all completion enabled for all file types. For example, if you want to add .txt files or .yaml files or other files like that you can do so easily with the extension settings.

Step 1 – Open The VSCode Extension Settings

I did this by opening Settings and searching “copilot”.

How To Enable or Disable Copilot for Other Programming Languages or File Types? What Languages Are There?

If you click the tiny link that says “languages” you get sent to an extremely helpful website that has documentation for exactly what languages are supported. Generally speaking the language that you choose dictates what file extensions it supports.

These are called “Language Identifiers” by VSCode.

Click Here to See the Languages GitHub Copilot VS Code supports.

Remember: Github Copilot Does Not Support Every Language

They support some subset and it changes. Try your best to find a Language Identifier that works with your file extension.

Github Copilot Doesn’t Support My File, File Extension, or Programming Language

It might! Read some of the VSCode Language Descriptions carefully and see if they apply to your filetype.

There Is No Way For GitHub Copilot To Support .txt Text Files?

Oh but there is! It is done by putting the VSCode Language Extension called Plaintext in the correct place in the GitHub Copilot VSCode Extension Settings.

Click Edit in settings.json

This will open up the GitHub Copilot section of your VSCode Settings JSON file.

Add Your Language Identifier

In this example we want to add our .txt files for completion so we add the “plaintext” language identifier to our settings.json file and set it to “true”.

Yay! You Have GitHub Copilot VSCode in New Files!

Your to-do lists can now complete themselves.

Using Google Webmaster Tools Disavow Links, Disavow Backlinks, Disavow Domains

Google Webmaster Tools Disavow Backlinks is Dangerous

DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for any damage you do with this tool. You use Google’s tool at your own risk.

Finding a Link to Google Webmaster Tools Disavow is Annoying

So here is the link to the Google Webmaster Tools backlink disavow: Google Webmaster Tools Disavow. You’ll need Google Webmaster Tools access for the domain you’re working on. I put a nice target=”_blank” on that link because you’re going to come back here in a few seconds when you realize they’ve given you the keys to the nuke and no instruction manual.

Seriously, Be Careful With The Disavow Tool

Using the Google disavow backlinks tool is dangerous, if you’re not sure what you’re doing you can destroy your site. Google makes that pretty clear. You’ll be permanently telling Google to ignore certain backlinks to your site. It cannot be undone. Backlinks make the juice flow so you better be damn sure you’re ready to nuke them or you’ll likely drop in the SERPs. Like anything dangerous this isn’t a toy so don’t play around with it.

You Use a .txt File to Disavow, But Google Doesn’t Tell You The Format

If you don’t know how to create a flat .txt file in your life this isn’t the article for you. You need to find someone to help you. The format is simple, each resource you wish to disavow is separated by newlines (\n). You can have fully qualified URLs, (protocol, subdomain, domain, page, query strings) or you can disavow entire domains using the “domain:” prefix. Disavow by URL is very limited, but Disavow by Domain… now you’re playing with fire.

Disavow URL vs. Disavow Domain

Disavow URL

There’s a big difference in these two and Disavow URL mostly sux. When you disavow a URL you are disavowing something very, very specific. It is a URL in Google’s system, which means that it is the unique combination of protocol, domain, subdomain, directories, page, and query string. What does that mean in English? It means that if you are using URLs to disavow backlinks you have to list every… single… variation. Here’s a sample of just a few possible variations for just the homepage for an example domain:

  • http://www.baddomain.com/
  • http://www.baddomain.com
  • http://www.baddomain.com/index.html
  • http://www.baddomain.com/index.htm
  • http://baddomain.com/index.html
  • https://www.baddomain.com/index.html
  • http://www.baddomain.com/badpage.html?bad=1

That’s way too much work. You’d need to do that for pretty much every possible page for every backlink and even Google doesn’t give you a totally complete dump of all your backlinks. Not to mention there are infinite possibilities so its not ever going to work if you are getting backlink spammed.

Disavow Domain

Disavowing a URL is pretty weak. Its so targeted you really aren’t getting much done. That’s the reason disavow by URL is the default, so people don’t shoot themselves in the foot and accidentally ruin their website. But if you just take the root domain, (not www.baddomain.com but baddomain.com) and apply the prefix of domain: then you can get rid of an entire shitty domain and whatever URLs they are backlinking to you on. This is why you need to be careful. Maybe you’re not sure what a domain really is but it was giving you juice or deep links, but you just disavowed all backlinks from that domain. You have just permanently removed that site from EVER being able to give you juice. However, this is amazing for when people black hat you because you can nuke whole domains at time. Ex:

domain:baddomain.com

You Need More Disavow .txt File Samples

You are a needy person, I just covered this. Here is a lame sample because if you need this you probably shouldn’t be messing with it.

domain:baddomain.com
domain:otherbaddomain.com
http://mehdomain.com/onlybacklink.html

You Have Work Left

Just because you’ve disavowed backlinks on Google doesn’t mean Google has disavowed those backlinks. You still need to have the actual links removed to be fully clear of their spam juice. That’s nearly impossible in most cases, but if you think its doable then do it because Google specifically says you need to do that. Now you know how to format your text file for Google Webmaster Tool Disavow Backlinks. Good luck… O_O

Here is the Link to the Disavow Backlinks Tool