Cursor is essentially VSCode with additional LLM functionality which seems to be better than Copilot.

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Using LLM within the IDE

• Prompt to edit: select code/text for context then ⌘ + k
• Ask a question: select code/text for context then ⌘ + l
• Retrieval Augmented Generation over codebase: ⌘ + enter