[CON-267] On an unsaved file, Continue sends an empty query, resulting in bad completions

[coder543]

Before submitting your bug report

• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: Linux
- Continue: latest published version
- IDE: VS Code

Description

I am editing a new, unsaved file. It has TypeScript code in it, and VS Code is in TypeScript mode. However, the completions are very bad and always the same. I checked the Continue "output" window, and I can see why.

It's not even trying to send content from the current file. As soon as I saved the file to disk, it seemed to start working normally.

I'm not sure if it is relevant, but I'm using VS Code over a "Remote - SSH" session.

To reproduce

No response

Log output

==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Settings:
contextLength: 4096
model: codegemma:7b-code-q8_0
maxTokens: 1024
stop: <|fim_prefix|>,<|fim_suffix|>,<|fim_middle|>,<|file_separator|>,<|fim_prefix|>,<|fim_suffix|>,<|fim_middle|>,<|file_separator|>,<end_of_turn>,<eos>,

,

,/src/,#- coding: utf-8,```,
function,
class,
module,
export,
import
temperature: 0.01
raw: true

############################################

<|fim_prefix|><|fim_suffix|><|fim_middle|>==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Settings:
contextLength: 4096
model: codegemma:7b-code-q8_0
maxTokens: 1024
stop: <|fim_prefix|>,<|fim_suffix|>,<|fim_middle|>,<|file_separator|>,<|fim_prefix|>,<|fim_suffix|>,<|fim_middle|>,<|file_separator|>,<end_of_turn>,<eos>,

,

,/src/,#- coding: utf-8,```,
function,
class,
module,
export,
import
temperature: 0.01
raw: true

############################################

<|fim_prefix|>
<|fim_suffix|>
<|fim_middle|>==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Completion:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

_CON-267

[sestinj]

Ah yes the remote part seems like the important one, thanks for mentioning that detail. I know i'd fixed a similar bug recently for non-remote, but I'll take a second look at this. Were you on the latest pre-release version of the extension?

[coder543]

I was just using whatever is in the VS Code extension store. I don't think it was a pre-release version.

[knilink]

same issue when editing a file outside of the working dir

[AndrewRocky]

Similar issue, but instead it puts in prompt the first suggestion from language server's suggestions. (when editing an unsaved untitled file with Ctrl+N. Checked in both 'Python' and 'Shell Script' Language Modes.)
For example, when writing import pan it will get 'pandas' from code suggestions and create prompt <｜fim▁begin｜>pandas<｜fim▁hole｜><｜fim▁end｜>

BTW, I've also seen this prompt on the server - looks suspiciously like a file (tab?) name. Maybe it will help you to debug this issue:

<｜fim▁begin｜>// Untitled-1
<｜fim▁hole｜><｜fim▁end｜>

IDE: VSCode 1.92.2
Environment: Windows 11 remoted into WSL2
Continue: latest published version

[AnnoyingTechnology]

Same issue with 0.9.244 with a non-saved file (Qwen 2.5 1.5B via lmstudio, Linux).

The behavior is so erratic I cannot make sense of it.

Here are multiple suggestions, with the associated unsaved file, and prompt received by the model.

no code included

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below only aws is included, which matches a previous comment stating

but instead it puts in prompt the first suggestion from language server's suggestions

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For comparison, with a saved file :