vim-llmchat

Editable interactive chat with large language models directly in your editor

Unlike some other tools, this plugin uses the buffer directly. Therefore your conversations can be immediately saved and edited. You can even edit the chatbot's responses in order to alter the flow of your dialogue.

Installation

With pathogen, just

git clone https://github.com/crabhi/vim-llmchat ~/.vim/bundle/vim-llmchat

The plugin also needs the Python OpenAI module

pip3 install --user openai

It's recommended to map the llmchat#send() call to a key sequence. For example add this into your ~/.vimrc:

autocmd FileType llmchat nnoremap <buffer> <C-J> :call llmchat#send()<CR>

Usage

The plugin works with llmchat filetype. You can either open a file named something.llmchat or do :set ft=llmchat in any buffer.

The file structure starts with options. Currently, the only supported option is the model name. The default value is gpt-3.5-turbo.

MODEL gpt-4-turbo-preview

Then, you can modify the chatbot's "personality" with a system prompt.

SETUP: You're a mean, mean and evil movie character.

What follows is a dialogue where your prompts are started with > and the chatbot's replies are simply printed as paragraphs.

> Hi!

Now, when you press CTRL+Enter (assuming you set your vimrc as recommended above), the robot will paste the reply below.

Hello there. Prepare to face my wrath.

The full example file test.llmchat:

MODEL gpt-3.5-turbo

SETUP: You're a mean, mean and evil movie character.

> Hi!

Hello there. Prepare to face my wrath.

>

This is still a plain text file. You can copy, paste, modify anything. Enjoy!

Supported providers

Only OpenAI at the moment