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An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 13 comments · first 2022-08-03 · latest 2025-07-13

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  1. Just copilot.el (I checked to be sure and I'm pulling from github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el) My config is quite simple: (progn (require 'copilot) (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'copilot-mode) (add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook 'copilot-mode)…
    comment by fipar · 2025-07-13 · in OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
  2. > All I need is a Github Copilot clone I'm using https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el > good code search feature. project-find-regexp is a nice start. > Oh and automatic reloads of open but unchanged buffers when switching between…
    comment by kstrauser · 2025-04-24 · in Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
  3. There is https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el that gets copilot to work in emacs via JS glue code and binaries provided by copilot.vim. I hacked up a slim alternative localpilot.js layer that uses llama-server instead of the copilot…
    comment by Lanedo · 2025-01-23 · in Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
  4. https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el
    comment by yoyohello13 · 2025-01-23 · in Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
  5. …one has first-party support: Cody: https://github.com/sourcegraph/emacs-cody (first party) copilot: https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el > Use VSCode for everything. For me, this requires a full-featured org mode implementation. I…
    comment by ParetoOptimal · 2024-01-17 · in Let's Help Org Mode Escape from Emacs
  6. …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…
    comment by amake · 2023-12-31 · in Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
  7. …for it and discard it if it doesn't fit. Just accept the completion if you like it. For reference: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el That, coupled with speed, makes it usable for slightly extended code completion (up to one line of…
    comment by 098799 · 2023-12-31 · in Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
  8. …It's going to quickly get confused with the unofficial copilot-for-emacs plugin pretty quickly: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el
    comment by nephyrin · 2023-12-31 · in Emacs-copilot: Large language model code completion for Emacs
  9. …I will take it personally, because he is such a fine cat, named after such a fine text editor. PS: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el
    comment by DonHopkins · 2023-11-22 · in Krita AI Diffusion
  10. …it costs $100+/month to run for an average developer. Or crack down on unofficial "copilots" like https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el (although I really doubt more than 1% of completions go to these since they are niche tools; most…
    comment by armchairhacker · 2023-10-10 · in Microsoft is reportedly losing lots of money per user on GitHub Copilot
  11. Devs could use the unofficial plugin for Emacs ( https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el ) as a guideline to add support
    comment by armchairhacker · 2023-03-31 · in Helix 23.03
  12. You can use https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el to get Copilot completions in Emacs. Video explainer: https://youtu.be/dZMGH_3UdSE
    comment by gandalfgeek · 2023-01-18 · in Show HN: Codeium: Free Copilot Alternative for Vim / Neovim
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    An unofficial Copilot plugin for Emacs
    story by elashri · 2022-11-01 · 1 comment
  14. …corp decides to up and leave, or the programming zeitgeist moves on to the shiny new thing. [1]: https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el
    comment by mplanchard · 2022-08-03 · in Emacs Timeline