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Copilot.el

Copilot.el is an Emacs plugin for GitHub Copilot.

Warning: This plugin is unofficial and based on binaries provided by copilot.vim.

Note: You need access to GitHub Copilot to use this plugin.

Current maintainer: @emil-vdw, @jcs090218, @rakotomandimby.

Retired maintainer: @zerolfx.

Installation

  1. Ensure your Emacs version is at least 27, the dependency package editorconfig (melpa) and jsonrpc (elpa, >= 1.0.14) are both installed.

  2. Install Node.js v18 . (You can specify the path to node executable by setting copilot-node-executable.)

  3. Setup copilot.el as described in the next section.

  4. Install the copilot server by M-x copilot-install-server.

  5. Login to Copilot by M-x copilot-login. You can also check the status by M-x copilot-diagnose (NotAuthorized means you don't have a valid subscription).

  6. Enjoy!

Configurations

Example for Doom Emacs

Add package definition to ~/.doom.d/packages.el:

(package! copilot
  :recipe (:host github :repo "copilot-emacs/copilot.el" :files ("*.el")))

Configure copilot in ~/.doom.d/config.el:

;; accept completion from copilot and fallback to company
(use-package! copilot
  :hook (prog-mode . copilot-mode)
  :bind (:map copilot-completion-map
              ("<tab>" . 'copilot-accept-completion)
              ("TAB" . 'copilot-accept-completion)
              ("C-TAB" . 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word)
              ("C-<tab>" . 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word)))

Strongly recommend to enable childframe option in company module ((company childframe)) to prevent overlay conflict.

If pressing tab to complete sometimes doesn't work you might want to bind completion to another key or try:

(after! (evil copilot)
  ;; Define the custom function that either accepts the completion or does the default behavior
  (defun my/copilot-tab-or-default ()
    (interactive)
    (if (and (bound-and-true-p copilot-mode)
             ;; Add any other conditions to check for active copilot suggestions if necessary
             )
        (copilot-accept-completion)
      (evil-insert 1))) ; Default action to insert a tab. Adjust as needed.

  ;; Bind the custom function to <tab> in Evil's insert state
  (evil-define-key 'insert 'global (kbd "<tab>") 'my/copilot-tab-or-default))

If you would love to configure indentation here, this is an example config that may work for you:

(use-package! copilot
  :hook (prog-mode . copilot-mode)
  :bind (:map copilot-completion-map
              ("<tab>" . 'copilot-accept-completion)
              ("TAB" . 'copilot-accept-completion)
              ("C-TAB" . 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word)
              ("C-<tab>" . 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word)
              ("C-n" . 'copilot-next-completion)
              ("C-p" . 'copilot-previous-completion))

  :config
  (add-to-list 'copilot-indentation-alist '(prog-mode 2))
  (add-to-list 'copilot-indentation-alist '(org-mode 2))
  (add-to-list 'copilot-indentation-alist '(text-mode 2))
  (add-to-list 'copilot-indentation-alist '(closure-mode 2))
  (add-to-list 'copilot-indentation-alist '(emacs-lisp-mode 2)))

Example for Spacemacs

Edit your ~/.spacemacs:

;; ===================
;; dotspacemacs/layers
;; ===================

;; add or uncomment the auto-completion layer
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'(
  ...
  auto-completion
  ...
 )

;; add copilot.el to additional packages
dotspacemacs-additional-packages
 '((copilot :location (recipe
                       :fetcher github
                       :repo "copilot-emacs/copilot.el"
                       :files ("*.el"))))

;; ========================
;; dotspacemacs/user-config
;; ========================

;; accept completion from copilot and fallback to company

(with-eval-after-load 'company
  ;; disable inline previews
  (delq 'company-preview-if-just-one-frontend company-frontends))
  
(with-eval-after-load 'copilot
  (define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "<tab>") 'copilot-accept-completion)
  (define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "TAB") 'copilot-accept-completion)
  (define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "C-TAB") 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word)
  (define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "C-<tab>") 'copilot-accept-completion-by-word))

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'copilot-mode)

General Configurations

1. Load copilot.el

Option 1: Load via use-package (recommended)
Emacs 27-29:

straight.el:

(use-package copilot
  :straight (:host github :repo "copilot-emacs/copilot.el" :files ("*.el"))
  :ensure t)

quelpa quelpa-use-package:

(use-package copilot
  :quelpa (copilot :fetcher github
                   :repo "copilot-emacs/copilot.el"
                   :branch "main"
                   :files ("*.el")))
On Emacs version 30 :
(use-package copilot
  :vc (:url "https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el"
            :rev :newest
            :branch "main"))

Use :map :hook and :config to customize copilot.el via use-package.

Option 3: Load manually

Please make sure you have these dependencies installed (available in ELPA/MELPA):

  • dash
  • s
  • editorconfig
  • f

After installing those, clone this repository then insert the below snippet into your config file.

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/copilot.el")
(require 'copilot)

2. Configure completion

Option 1: Use copilot-mode to automatically provide completions
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'copilot-mode)

To customize the behavior of copilot-mode, please check copilot-enable-predicates and copilot-disable-predicates.

Option 2: Manually provide completions

You need to bind copilot-complete to some key and call copilot-clear-overlay inside post-command-hook.

3. Configure completion acceptation

Use tab to accept completions (you may also want to bind copilot-accept-completion-by-word to some key):

(define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "<tab>") 'copilot-accept-completion)
(define-key copilot-completion-map (kbd "TAB") 'copilot-accept-completion)

Programming language detection

Copilot.el detects the programming language of a buffer based on the major-mode name, stripping the -mode part. Resulting languageId should match table here. You can add unusual major-mode mappings to copilot-major-mode-alist. Without the proper language set suggestions may be of poorer quality.

(add-to-list 'copilot-major-mode-alist '("enh-ruby" . "ruby"))

Commands

copilot-diagnose

Check the current status of the plugin. Also you can check logs in the *copilot events* buffer and stderr output in the *copilot stderr* buffer.

copilot-login

Login to GitHub, required for using the plugin.

copilot-mode

Enable/disable copilot mode.

copilot-complete

Try to complete at the current point.

copilot-accept-completion

Accept the current completion.

copilot-clear-overlay

Clear copilot overlay in the current buffer.

copilot-accept-completion-by-line / copilot-accept-completion-by-word

Similar to copilot-accept-completion, but accept the completion by line or word. You can use prefix argument to specify the number of lines or words to accept.

copilot-next-completion / copilot-previous-completion

Cycle through the completion list.

copilot-logout

Log out from GitHub.

Customization

copilot-node-executable

The executable path of Node.js.

copilot-idle-delay

Time in seconds to wait before starting completion (default to 0). Note Copilot itself has a ~100ms delay because of network communication.

copilot-enable-predicates / copilot-disable-predicates

A list of predicate functions with no argument to enable/disable triggering Copilot in copilot-mode.

copilot-enable-display-predicates / copilot-disable-display-predicates

A list of predicate functions with no argument to enable/disable showing Copilot's completions in copilot-mode.

copilot-clear-overlay-ignore-commands

A list of commands that won't cause the overlay to be cleared.

copilot-network-proxy

Format: '(:host "127.0.0.1" :port 7890 :username: "user" :password: "password"), where :username and :password are optional.

For example:

(setq copilot-network-proxy '(:host "127.0.0.1" :port 7890))

Known Issues

Wrong Position of Other Completion Popups

This is an example of using together with default frontend of company-mode. Because both company-mode and copilot.el use overlay to show completion, so the conflict is inevitable. To solve the problem, I recommend you to use company-box (only available on GUI), which is based on child frame rather than overlay.

After using company-box, you have:

In other editors (e.g. VS Code, PyCharm), completions from copilot and other sources can not show at the same time. But I decided to allow them to coexist, allowing you to choose a better one at any time.

Cursor Jump to End of Line When Typing

  • If you are using whitespace-mode, make sure to remove newline-mark from whitespace-style.

Reporting Bugs

  • Make sure you have restarted your Emacs (and rebuild the plugin if necessary) after updating the plugin.
  • Please enable event logging by customize copilot-log-max (to e.g. 1000), then paste related logs in the *copilot events* and *copilot stderr* buffer.
  • If an exception is thrown, please also paste the stack trace (use M-x toggle-debug-on-error to enable stack trace).

Roadmap

  • Setup Copilot without Neovim
  • Cycle through suggestions
  • Add Copilot minor-mode
  • Add package to MELPA

Thanks

These projects helped me a lot:

If you want chat with github copilot?

Just like copilot plugin for intellij or vscode?

Please take a look at copilot-chat.el