copilot.el VS meow

Yeah and there's already a well-known (at least I already knew about it) package started in 2022 called "copilot" for Emacs that is actually a client for GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el

Given the lack of namespacing in Elisp (or, rather, the informal namespacing conventions by which these two packages collide) it's unfortunate that this package chose the same name.

It's a package to integrate Bigcode/Starcoder into Emacs like https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el does with Github Copilot.

It's not fancy with previewable overlays and stuffs as https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el and I am not so sure if the performance is optimal, but it gets the bare job done.

Unfortunately, the only way I've managed to get code completion working without having to use the C-c ' buffer is through the unofficial copilot.el. The good news is that it work for any language (including elisp literate configs) but it's a little too aggressive on it's completions.

I'm trying out github copilot with this package: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el, configured like this:

that was enough for this to work from https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el

Devs could use the unofficial plugin for Emacs (https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el) as a guideline to add support

The whole gif in the repo's README

Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.

Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el

Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.

[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html

You have to go further for ideal IMO.

Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

I think I'd rather hope for meow over Evil. It's close to Evil but embraces more of emacs' default bindings for calling commands.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.

Repeat action (evil handles this very nicely). see: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/discussions/414

There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2]

[1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

I was thinking about this a little more and Meow has something known as keypad mode that basically lets you call key combinations then return to Normal mode. It behaves a lot like god-mode. I just tested it out and if you install Meow you can call keypad-mode from insert and then automatically return to insert mode.

I've only tried out the selection->action model using the meow editing mode for Emacs, and I initially thought it was a really great idea, but I found myself frustrated at the lack of a meaningful repeat operator. I'm not even sure what the semantics of that operator would be in a selection->action model, given that so often the thing I'm repeating in vim is a command like ci".