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copilot.vim support for copilot chat? #50939
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Hi @zdufour-asp , Thank you for your feedback and the excitement for the new tech 🚀 . Since the product is in the public preview, it is pretty early for us to comment on future developments. Sign up for the private preview now if you haven't so far. 🙂 |
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Now that Copilot Chat is available for all organizations1, is there any update on whether it will be implemented in copilot.vim? Footnotes |
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How can I sign up for the private preview, and what are the benefits of doing so? |
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There are no options vim or "other" on signing up |
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Now that Github Copilot Chat is open for all, will be developed a pulgin for neovim? |
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Currently paying 100$ per year for basically re-installing VsCode would break my heart and my colleagues would laugh at me, out of the equation. |
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Hi IzioDev: I am a vim user and have not been able to get nodejs + npm working on Cygwin + Windows. I guess I am confused. To me it is not clear if vim running on Cygwin (Windows) is supported by copliot. I have left a few posts and not heard back. Have you seen any install info? Kind Regards, and thanks for response in advance. e |
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@IzioDev I am in the same boat. I have a vim tattoo, I can't back out now. |
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Copilot Chat seems to be rolling out for more people. Any plans for adding support to neovim? |
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looking forward to this! |
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One more vote for getting Copilot chat support on the vim |
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Another vote for maintaining general parity between the vim and vscode versions |
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Folks: There's a vote feature at the top. Using that adds your support, without notifying anyone. I'd like to stay subscribed to this, so I can get actual updates, but when you add a comment that's just "another vote," you achieve nothing except annoying me and everyone else who is subscribed. If people keep doing it, I'll have to unsubscribe, and then I won't stay in the loop. So please, don't comment with a +1. |
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Reading the Github docs, it's not completely clear to me when an issue will close as stale, and whether upvotes alone count as activity. If they do, then we should all follow your advice. |
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I'm in favor of adding more upvotes, but I will note that this topic already is the #1 all-time most voted-for issue, with almost three times as many votes as the next unanswered topic. If votes do matter, one has to wonder how many more votes would be needed to get a response. |
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This is not an issue, it's a discussion, so it won't be closed as stale.
This is just up to Microsoft at this point, spamming this discussion with comments is very unlikely to affect their decision making any more than the upvotes. |
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https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/50939#discussioncomment-7402566 |
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Sorry @bmulholland, now I am getting two notifications, one with the comment and one with you mentioning how annoyed you are by the comment. Are you a moderator or trying to enforce community guidelines or just trying to enforce your personal preference? (I could not find where it is specified that the way to interact is the button instead of a comment, could you kindly point me to it?). Are you part of github and would be involved in the implementation (or as a moderator), or just another user like the rest of us commenting? |
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@aramirezreyes it's just common github etiquette. Community support is gauged by the votes on the topic, not by (arguably redundant) comments (each one sending notifications to everyone who is subscribed to the discussion) |
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at the end of the day, adults are just like child but arguing with more words. funny, isn't it? :D |
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would love this feature to be ported to nvim as well |
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When Copilot says "you can work in your favorite editor", and then preferentially rolls out features to only the Microsoft-connected editors for half a year, offering no progress updates on support for other editors, it looks super sus. |
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Any publicly traded company should be expected to prioritize adding features to their own tools over others. That doesn't mean they won't follow through. Imagine the blowback if they had Copilot Chat working in NeoVim while VS Code users have to wait six months or more to start using it. The development timelines are different because a NeoVim plugin is a totally separate product from a VS Code plugin, so a synchronized release would inevitably result in a delay for one or the other. Luckily there are alternatives to copilot, if you're interested. model.nvim lets you connect with a variety of AI models for code completion and chat. You can even connect it to a local LLM, which is nice if you ever work on anything proprietary. |
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Imagine they were your products, your IDE (the key word here being "Integrated"), your Dev budget... we're all keen for the full Copilot experience in Neovim but to develop, prove and perfect a new product outside of your own, existing ecosystem would quite frankly be a ridiculous business decision. I'm sure they're keeping an eye on external integrations - again, a good business strategy because of the licensing model - but it wouldn't make sense to prioritise them |
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I think these are good points, and I have no problem with some prioritization of Microsoft-connected tooling, but I do have a problem with the "no progress updates for six months" part. I started using Copilot because it said it had first-class support for editors including Neovim, which seemed to signal that Github was making a good faith effort to maintain open-source compatibility, which was a big concern when Github was acquired. Now I'm sitting here, after a year of Copilot X hype, feeling sorely tempted to use VSCode with the neovim plugin, and it all feels a bit more like a ploy to increase market share. Or, as with a lot of these things, there's genuinely good intentions behind it, but prioritization slips so much under the publicly-traded profit motive that it becomes indistinguishable from malice. Is it right around the corner? Six months away? Just asking for a genuine update, so I can make an informed decision about switching to model.nvim or something similar. |
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It's also worth noting that this is far and away the most requested feature for copilot, which makes the lack of updates all the more puzzling. |
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I really hope that copilot can support chat function in nvim. |
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Fyi, a community person wrote https://github.com/gptlang/CopilotChat.nvim. I read it (checkout of 798a48b) and it is rough around the edges, but the basic idea is that it provides a
I mention this not so much to highlight this project (I don't have anything to do with it), but to hopefully inspire the PS - if people do play with it, I found I needed python 3.10 (3.8 didn't work) and needed to set PYTHONPATH to |
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I have no horse in this race, but maybe Codeium could release something like chat for Neovim first and that would be interesting on their adoption side over Copilot. I use both in Neovim and they produce very similar outcomes. |
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As a committed Vim user I have to admit Copilot's advertising around Vim support feels deceptive. It is implied in marketing materials that Vim users will have access to the same features as users of other platforms, when in fact one of the biggest selling points of Copilot is completely missing. There is no timeline for chat, or even an indication that chat will be added. Users could not be blamed for assuming the Vim plugin was a marketing gimmick which has served its purpose and been abandoned. No one wants this, and if this is not the case I hope we can get some indication to the contrary soon. |
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As someone old enough to remember developing for IE6, I have an uncomfortable feeling about MS shenanigans like this. Seems like the main lesson they learned is to not only bind users but also developers to them and give them as little choice in the matter as possible. |
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Vim support is one of the reasons I pushed for Copilot over other options when my company was trialing AI tools. I suspect I wasn't the only vocal Vim user doing this at their respective companies. Now that Microsoft has achieved a significant market share, it feels like they no longer need to care about Vim and that we were misled for marketing / market penetration purposes. |
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Now it is "generally" available... 😠
"All". "No extra cost", it is quite costly to switch IDEs. It is adevertised to work Neovim, this is just outrageous and unacceptable. |
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Maybe we should just get a beach house...
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You can always check the GitHub Public Road map to see what's coming. Here's the query for searching upcoming GitHub Copilot features. |
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I think we can take this as feedback and leave it here for the product team to see. I have provided you with all the information that is currently available. Sorry I couldn't do more. |
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Thanks @mishmanners for your help and for your patience with us |
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Yes, thank you for engaging and doing what you can. Anything you could do to raise this issue's visibility with the product team would be greatly appreciated. |
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Yeah, and wait patiently until it's marked as stale and closed by a bot. Oh, wait... It's a discussion, it'll likely stay unresolved forever. |
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Is your statement that Neovim support for Copilot Chat is coming soon a public announcement? |
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Hi there! Over the past few days, I have been trying to put together a plugin, and I came up with something I'm decently happy about: https://github.com/z0rzi/ai-chat.nvim I created it because I couldn't get It's not tested, and I'm sure it could be improved in a lot of ways, but It does what I want it to do. If you feel like giving it a try, contributing, or raising issues, feel free to do it! |
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https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim best we got at the moment |
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Thanks! |
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Looking at https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim/blob/main/rplugin%2Fpython3%2Fcopilot.py#L109 it seems like it's using a legit endpoint for copilot chat. In that file, it doesn't lie to the API that it's this bespoke plugin, so it doesn't seem illegitimate to me, other than if something breaks or changes in the API, Microsoft won't guarantee fixing it, as you'd expect with any 3rd party plugin. |
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@kcuzner thank you for your reply! so in other words it appears as if it is just using an undocumented API? |
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and is it fair to say the python pre-requisite is just because the developer prefers to write in python haha? and maybe lua doesn't have very good support for rest/curl/api type calls? |
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To be honest, I don't understand why Microsoft just don't provide proper API documentation for Copilot Chat. Vim community would then write and maintain a proper Copilot Chat plugin. |
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Oh hey. Sorry to necro an old thread. Completely missed the activity as it occurred. I'm the original author of the prototype (It's now maintained by @deathbeam and @jellydn)
I basically opened VSCode, fired up
Because I don't really know Lua. @deathbeam has since ported it to pure Lua without any Python dependencies |
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Hi there, I'm Dung Huynh, the maintainer of CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim, and we're on a thrilling journey to integrate GitHub Copilot Chat with Neovim seamlessly. Our organization is dedicated to this vision, and we've made promising strides. But, we need your expertise and enthusiasm to propel us further! You could look at the open issues or discussions to know what we are working on. Why Join Us?
Get Involved: Please look into our documentation for details on setup, usage, and how you can contribute, whether, through words, suggestions, etc. Contribute to a Future Where Coding Meets AI Seamlessly in Neovim! Warm regards, Dung Huynh |
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Hi everyone, We are migrating to a Lua-based plugin on v2. Please take a try as this documentation https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim/blob/canary/MIGRATION.md and let us know if any issue. |
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I could not make it work yet with Lazyvim.
It was installed but I am not sure why. The Nvim: 0.9.5 |
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My bad. Wrong branch! |
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Great post. Thanks for sharing so thoughtfully. |
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Fair point. I assumed it was referring to @jellydn 's efforts (i.e. the previous comment) The original issue text is nearly a year old! |
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Yeah that is the part I still found a bit odd and also like what was the point of the message a year later and with actually no new information or clarity 🤷🏻♂️ I agree the message still seems a bit pointless (and frustrating) but it no longer seems as if in poor taste after reading the original post. |
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He also doesn't appear to be affiliated with github? It almost reads like an AI-generated response. |
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Generated via GitHub copilot chat plugin from neovims xd 😄 |
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We’ve clarified our stance on using generative AI tools like ChatGPT within our Community via this announcement. Please review the guidelines to ensure your post meets them as failure to adhere to those rules can result in action taken by our moderator team. You can read our updated Code of Conduct and the announcement for more details. Thank you for helping us maintain an authentic and beneficial space for everyone. |
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Am I missing some further context/update not shared here or why has the discussion died out? It's been 4 months since any "news". |
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Do you accept pull requests, if I get around to writing it? It can't be that hard for a user to add this to the official plugin. @Akash1134 |
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Poking also about this. There should be feature parity between IDEs. Otherwise, do not say in the website that VIM is supported for Copilot. |
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Are there any valid alternatives to the chat feature (for vim)? e.g. from other providers? |
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this one is the most recomended (Lazyvim is using it) CopilotC-Nvim |
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@tarasowski unfortunately, for many reasons like this, it seems in-inevitable that all us vim users are going to have to port to nvim :( |
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@bulletmark I tested out some terminal apps, and I really like this one: https://github.com/kardolus/chatgpt-cli, you can send context with it by simply "cat file | chatgpt", also aider seems to be a valid option (similar to cursor.sh). Right now using chatgpt-cli. |
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@tarasowski my comment was not about this issue alone though. It seems to me that |
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@bulletmark okay, got your point. I like it to keep it simple and stupid, the only tool I'm missing is the full integration of copilot 🤖 |
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I've been trying to dodge the nvim hysteria for too long. It is, perhaps, time to embrace the inevitable... |
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Hello |
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I believe it makes sense to ask the GitHub team in general. I doubt those contributors make the decisions regarding what to work on. |
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RIP copilot for *vim, the other editors keep getting more and more features, and this is stalled for ages now, it seems pretty clear that GitHub abandoned it. |
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I think people are missing the purpose / intent of copilot.vim. It is NOT copilot CHAT. It does what it is meant to which is provide autocompletions / code completions as you type your code. That being said, yes I really hope GitHub invests in providing a Copilot Chat plugin and/or at least providing more api/sdk primitives that can be tapped into for others to implement some of the vscode Copilot Chat enhancements... but it is never going to be part of this copilot.vim plugin. |
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@GitMurf I don't sense anybody here who misunderstands the difference between copilot completions and chat. It's pretty clear what we are all asking for, given at the title of this discussion. |
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Because copilot.vim has been lacking those "chat" features for quite some time I found myself using vim-ai plugin more and more.
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Will people in the technical preview for copilot x have direct access to an API?
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copilot.vimsupport during the preview, but I'd be down to implement a hacky UI for neovim if it's possible (I really want to try out the new tech, but having to set up the vscode neovim plugin to do so seems like a lot of work)Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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