Support for chat

[drewwells]

Chat goes publicly available soon. Would be good to integrate it. It's a very useful tool but we're unable to use it in eMacs right now

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

[rakotomandimby]

@drewwells , as far as I am used to @zerolfx answers, if Github integrates it in the neovim plugin or releases a separate neovim plugin for that, it would be possible to go.

[shroomist]

I'm not a user of neovim, I couldn't validate, but I see traces of chat functionality in neovim repo command:workbench.panel.chat.view.copilot.focus

[emil-vdw]

This would indeed be a good feature to add IMO. Correct me if I'm wrong but this has not officially released (in general and as a feature of the neovim plugin)? I will keep this issue open so we can monitor the situation.

[wrn]

I am eagerly waiting for this feature. A lot of thanks in advance.

[sylvesterroos]

There is this project that implements Chat support for Neovim. It's unofficial, and I haven't tested this (I don't use nvim as my code editor), but according to the README it works

[FengqiuAdamDong]

I believe Neovim maybe be getting chat soon
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/50939

[xz-dev]

https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim

[Aneeqasif]

https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim

any chance of getting it in emacs? @devs

[chep]

Hi,

I created a repository : https://github.com/chep/copilot-chat.el

I'm using neovim plugin code to implement copilot chat.

Currently, I'm able to ask something to copilot. The answer is printed in a buffer.
Exemple for (copilot-chat-ask "write me a simple UDP server in C")

Copilot answer:
Sure, here's a simple UDP server written in C. This server will receive a message from a client, print it, and then send a response back.

```c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define BUF_SIZE 1024
#define PORT 8888

void error_handling(char *message);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int serv_sock;
    char message[BUF_SIZE];
    struct sockaddr_in serv_addr;
    struct sockaddr_in clnt_addr;
    socklen_t clnt_addr_size;

    serv_sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
    if (serv_sock == -1)
        error_handling("UDP socket creation error");

    memset(&serv_addr, 0, sizeof(serv_addr));
    serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
    serv_addr.sin_port = htons(PORT);

    if (bind(serv_sock, (struct sockaddr*)&serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)) == -1)
        error_handling("bind() error");

    while(1) {
        clnt_addr_size = sizeof(clnt_addr);
        int str_len = recvfrom(serv_sock, message, BUF_SIZE, 0, (struct sockaddr*)&clnt_addr, &clnt_addr_size);
        if (str_len == -1)
            error_handling("recvfrom() error");

        printf("Received from client: %s\n", message);

        sendto(serv_sock, message, str_len, 0, (struct sockaddr*)&clnt_addr, clnt_addr_size);
    }

    close(serv_sock);
    return 0;
}

void error_handling(char *message)
{
    fputs(message, stderr);
    fputc('\n', stderr);
    exit(1);
}
``

This server listens on port 8888 and uses the `recvfrom` function to receive data from a client. It then sends the same data back to the client using the `sendto` function. The `error_handling` function is used to display error messages and terminate the program in case of any errors.

(I just removed a backquote to have a pretty print in github)

Feel free to help me improving this or to use it for integration in copilot.el.

[Aneeqasif]

lovely, does it have any workspace awareness?? like in vscode because that's the thing that separates copilot chat from other ai plugins

[xz-dev]

lovely, does it have any workspace awareness?? like in vscode because that's the thing that separates copilot chat from other ai plugins

I think it can simply plus file content and path in chat

[Aneeqasif]

looking forward for the package. i hope the features get polished in future. I willl test it out and get back to you with some reviews : )