GitHub Copilot nvim plugin[1] has autocomplete with ghost text, but of course it requires you use GitHub Copilot :)
[1]: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
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copilot.vim
Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot
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What it is
Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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GitHub Copilot for Vim and Neovim
GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer tool that helps you write code faster
and smarter. Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot turns
natural language prompts including comments and method names into coding
suggestions across dozens of languages.
Copilot.vim is a Vim/Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot.
To learn more, visit
https://github.com/features/copilot.
Getting access to GitHub Copilot
To access GitHub Copilot, an active GitHub Copilot subscription is required.
Sign up for GitHub Copilot Free, or
request access from your enterprise admin.
Getting started
Install Neovim or the latest patch of Vim (9.0.0185 or newer).
Install Node.js. If you use a package manager, make sure to install
NPM as well (e.g., apt install nodejs npm on Debian/Ubuntu).
Install github/copilot.vim using vim-plug, lazy.nvim, or any other
plugin manager. Or to install manually, run one of the following
commands:
Vim, Linux/macOS:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git \
~/.vim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim
Neovim, Linux/macOS:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git \
~/.config/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim
Vim, Windows (PowerShell command):
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git `
$HOME/vimfiles/pack/github/start/copilot.vim
Neovim, Windows (PowerShell command):
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git `
$HOME/AppData/Local/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim
Start Vim/Neovim and invoke :Copilot setup.
Suggestions are displayed inline and can be accepted by pressing the tab key.
See :help copilot for more information.
Troubleshooting
We’d love to get your help in making GitHub Copilot better! If you have
feedback or encounter any problems, please reach out on our feedback
forum.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
25 sourcesGithub copilot has an official [1] neovim extension. There are also third-party plugins for Copilot, Chat, Next edit etc.
[1] https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In How I use Kate editorThe copilot.vim [1] plugin, for what it’s worth, is not FOSS.
[1]: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and NeovimStarting earlier this year I've set up a mitmproxy a lot on my entire home network, and often have it on for all traffic at times. I put up an old NAS and I'm abusing it as a mitmproxy tool for my home.
There would be so much to write about what I've seen. I've thought of making a blog post. I use mitmproxy to check on sketchy apps and to learn in general.
The information sent out is fascinating. I knew extensive telemetry is pretty norm these days, but it's another thing to see it with your own eyes.
My exercise has also made the typical "yes, we collect data/telemetry, but it's deanonymized/secured/etc. and deleted after X days so no worries" sound very hollow; even if a company goes in good faith by their own rules, how am I supposed to trust the other 1000 companies who also do data collection. If someone hacked my mitmproxy itself a
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nd downloaded all the payloads it collected, they would probably know me better than I do.
Random examples on top of my head from mitmproxy (when I say "chatty" I mean they talk a lot to server somewhere):
I had GitHub CoPilot neovim plugin. I didn't realize how chatty it was until I did this (although I wasn't surprised either, obviously completions are sent out to a server, but it also has your usual telemetry+AB test experiment stuff). I had wanted to ditch that service for a long time so I finally did it after seeing with a local setup since open stuff has mostly caught up. Also it's not actually open source I think? I had no idea (I thought it would just be a simple wrapper to call into some APIs, but: no PRs, no issues, code has blobs of .wasm and .node: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim)
Firefox telemetry, if it's turned on, is a bit concerningly detailed to me. I think I might be completely identifiable on some of the payloads if someone decided to really take a go at analyzing the payloads I send. Also I find it funny that one of the JSON fields says "telemetry is off". Telemetry is actually on on the menu (I leave it on purpose to see stuff like this); just in the JSON for some reason it says off. I'm not sure if that telemetry is meant to be non-identifiable though in the first place.
Unity-made software (also mentioned in the article) send out a Unity piece at start-up that looks similar to the article, although I didn't take a deeper look myself.
Author mentioned the battery: I also noticed that a lot of mobile apps are interested in the battery level. I didn't connect the pieces why but the article mentions Uber 4% battery surcharge, and now it makes a bit more sense.
One app that has at least once been on HN at high scores starts sending out analytics before you've consented to any terms and conditions. One of the fields is your computer hostname (one of my computers has my real name in my hostname...it does not anymore). Usually web pages have "by downloading you accept terms and conditions" but this one only presented that text after you launch app before you get to the main portion. I never clicked it (still haven't), but I allowed the app mellow on background to snoop on its behavior.
Video games: The ones I've tried seen mostly don't do anything too interesting. But I haven't tried any crappy mobile games for example. One unity game on the laptop, Bloons TD 6 sends out analytics at every menu click and a finished game sends a summary and is the "chattiest" game so far, although seems limited to what the game actually needs to do (it has an.online aspect). The payloads had more detailed info on my game stats though, they should add those to the game UI ;)
Apple updates don't work through mitmproxy (won't trust the certificates). Neither do many mobile apps (none of the banking ones did, now I know what a mitm attack would look like to my bank app).
Some requests have a boatload of HTTP headers. I've thought of writing a mitmproxy module to make a top 10 list. I think some Google services might be at the top that I've seen. (I think Google also has developed new HTTP tech, is it so that they can more efficiently set even more cookies? ;)
I think anything Microsoft-tied may be chattiest programs overall on my laptop. But I haven't done stats or anything like that.
Aside from mitmproxy, I'm learning security/cryptography (managed to find real world vulnerabilities although frankly very boring ones so far...), Ghidra, started learning some low-level seccomp() stuff, qemu user emulation, things in that nature to get some skills in this space. Still need to learn: legal side of things (ToSes like to say 'no reverse engineering'), how to not get into trouble if you reverse engineer something someone didn't like. I've not dared to report some things, and to not poke some APIs or even mention them because I don't know enough yet how to cover my ass.
Modern computing privacy and security is a mess.
I've worked a good part of my career at a DSP company (it would be in the box that says "Criteo" on it on the author's article). So I have some idea what companies in that space have as data.
I use tmux and neovim along with the copilot plugin[0]. I prefer it over the VSCode copilot integration, to me it feels less obtrusive and out of the way, which is what I want. You're also not dealing with API costs since it uses the regular Copilot subscription.
[0] https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovimhttps://github.com/github/copilot.vim works pretty well for inline autocompletion
https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim is the best I've found for the chat-type interaction. It lets you choose models/etc.
It's still not quite as nice as cursor, but decent enough that I enjoy using them
In GitHub Copilot is now available for freeAgree. We actually tried getting GitHub Copilot to work with Jupyter but GH doesn't have an official API. We actually took some time to reverse engineer an implementation from neovim GH Copilot extension [1] and from Zed [2] but found it too flaky and too much trouble in the end.
Meanwhile, we also found a better speed/quality tradeoff with Codestral (since it has a fill-in-the-middle version, unlike a general LLM) so we decided to go with Codestral. This is inspired by continue.dev using Codestral for tab completion :)
[1] https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
[2] https://zed.dev/blog/copilot
In Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter NotebooksCopilot.vim: Neovim Plugin for GitHub Copilot
1 points · Open discussionI use copilot in neovim[1]. It was remarkably simple to get installed. Highly recommend
[1]: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat1. Install vim Copilot plugin.
2. Name your file with .txt extension.
3. Write stuff.
https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and ThinkingVim: https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
Neovim: https://github.com/zbirenbaum/copilot.lua
Neovim ChatGPT: https://github.com/jackMort/ChatGPT.nvim
In Re: I Don't Use CopilotThere is a very good Copilot plugin for nvim written by the legendary tpope himself. It is easy to toggle on and off. I use it alongside coc-nvim every day.
https://github.com/github/copilot.vim
In 40% of the code GitHub Copilot users check-in is AI generated and unmodifiedThe neovim plugin mostly actually communicates with a node-js service seen here (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/tree/release/copilot/d...). This is why they require you to install node for using the plugin and allows them to share logic with the vscode extension (also in javascript). I think all the features should be available even in neovim.
In Copilot InternalsRE: neovim
Looks like the 20 file logic is present in neovim as well. I went through its code (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/copilot/d...) after beautifying it (https://codebeautify.org/jsviewer), and found it present.
I couldn't exactly trace it to a specific neovim event but I'm guessing it corresponds to buffer-update-events (https://neovim.io/doc/user/api.html#api-buffer-updates) or something like that.
Re: getting in trouble
I surely hope not :P. I mean, the code is basically public (available on every user's computer).
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