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copilot-emacs / copilot.el

An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs.
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Usage as a completion backend #151

Closed lilactown closed 1 year ago

lilactown commented 1 year ago

I use vertico and corfu combined with libraries like consult that provide completing-read implementations for my completion setup right now. What do you think about adding a completing-read implementation and using copilot as a backend for those other completion UIs?

As it stands right now, I have to use different bindings and UIs depending on if I want to use copilot or my preferred completion (xref, LSP, REPL, etc.). My goal is to simplify and unify the amount of UI and bindings I need to juggle in my workflow.

zerolfx commented 1 year ago

I've attempted to integrate it as a company-mode backend initially, but encountered issues where Copilot frequently generates multi-line completions that are challenging to display alongside other results as a completion candidate. (This means that only part of the completion is visible, and it takes longer than other backends due to network delay.)