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Heh this blew up here :D Didn't know till a friend told me about it. I'd love to know if you guys have any specific questions about copilot's internals that I

Heh this blew up here :D Didn't know till a friend told me about it. I'd love to know if you guys have any specific questions about copilot's internals that I can try to answer by staring at the code or if you have any feedback for the tool/post!

152334H 4y ago
Any word on what the neovim plugin does? Considering some features like, > Then, most recently accessed 20 files of the same language are queried from VSCode. are probably not available by default in nvim? --- Also, do you think there's any chance you get in trouble for reverse engineering copilot?
- thakkarparth007 4y ago
  RE: neovim Looks like the 20 file logic is present in neovim as well. I went through its code (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/copilot/dist/agent.js https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/copilot/d...) after beautifying it (https://codebeautify.org/jsviewer https://codebeautify.org/jsviewer), and found it present. I couldn't exactly trace it to a specific neovim event but I'm guessing it corresponds to buffer-update-events (https://neovim.io/doc/user/api.html#api-buffer-updates https://neovim.io/doc/user/api.html#api-buffer-updates) or something like that. Re: getting in trouble I surely hope not :P. I mean, the code is basically public (available on every user's computer).
  - 152334H 4y ago
    Interesting, thanks.
- varunkmohan 4y ago
  The neovim plugin mostly actually communicates with a node-js service seen here (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/tree/release/copilot/dist https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/tree/release/copilot/d...). This is why they require you to install node for using the plugin and allows them to share logic with the vscode extension (also in javascript). I think all the features should be available even in neovim.
sprobertson 4y ago
Just a note on the first sentence under "What does a prompt look like?", it seems like there's a continuity error from the above paragraph.
- thakkarparth007 4y ago
  oh lol. Yeah, messed up while rewriting. Fixing. Thanks!

152334H 4y ago

Any word on what the neovim plugin does? Considering some features like, > Then, most recently accessed 20 files of the same language are queried from VSCode. are probably not available by default in nvim? --- Also, do you think there's any chance you get in trouble for reverse engineering copilot?

thakkarparth007 4y ago
RE: neovim Looks like the 20 file logic is present in neovim as well. I went through its code (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/copilot/dist/agent.js https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/blob/release/copilot/d...) after beautifying it (https://codebeautify.org/jsviewer https://codebeautify.org/jsviewer), and found it present. I couldn't exactly trace it to a specific neovim event but I'm guessing it corresponds to buffer-update-events (https://neovim.io/doc/user/api.html#api-buffer-updates https://neovim.io/doc/user/api.html#api-buffer-updates) or something like that. Re: getting in trouble I surely hope not :P. I mean, the code is basically public (available on every user's computer).
- 152334H 4y ago
  Interesting, thanks.
varunkmohan 4y ago
The neovim plugin mostly actually communicates with a node-js service seen here (https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/tree/release/copilot/dist https://github.com/github/copilot.vim/tree/release/copilot/d...). This is why they require you to install node for using the plugin and allows them to share logic with the vscode extension (also in javascript). I think all the features should be available even in neovim.

sprobertson 4y ago

Just a note on the first sentence under "What does a prompt look like?", it seems like there's a continuity error from the above paragraph.

thakkarparth007 4y ago
oh lol. Yeah, messed up while rewriting. Fixing. Thanks!