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I agree and I know what you're saying, but I'm pretty curious: how are people using AI with vim? I've seen some scripts for ollama but what are most people doin

I agree and I know what you're saying, but I'm pretty curious: how are people using AI with vim? I've seen some scripts for ollama but what are most people doing?

Carrok 8mo ago
The copilot plugin works well
- guerrilla 8mo ago
  That's good to know. I've never actually tried Copilot. I was going to try this week.
  - metrix 8mo ago
    Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM) Totally worth it
era86 8mo ago
tmux + vim + Claude Code
- bicx 8mo ago
  This. With so much of my work being done with Claude Code via terminal, I’ve used vim and tmux more than I have in the 20 years since I was first introduced.
  - Keyframe 8mo ago
    same, although I'm using zellij instead of tmux. Copilot works well in vim too.
  - linhns 8mo ago
    How many people don’t know tmux in the industry is really beyond me.
    - jimmaswell 8mo ago
      What's the elevator pitch if I already know Screen and I can just open multiple windows of the terminal emulator?
      - hibbelig 8mo ago
        I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well. Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’t have skin in the game. Not sure if it helps.
      - mystifyingpoi 8mo ago
        No pitch - just use screen, most people use tmux in exactly the same way - open a few splits and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts.
        linhns 8mo ago
        Tmux is better supported by other tools, such as fzf.
      - fragmede 8mo ago
        The people GP are talking about don't know about GNU screen either.
    - tommy_axle 8mo ago
      With all the buzz about orchestrating in the age of CLI agents there doesn't seem to be much talk about vim + tmux with send-keys (a blessing). You can run as many windows and panes doing so many different things across multiple projects.
      - prinny_ 8mo ago
- sorentwo 8mo ago
  Nearly this, but using ghostty instead of tmux. You don’t get the remote connection aspect of tmux, but for splitting/zooming/preserving windows it is fantastic. The best part is you can configure natural shortcuts rather than using a leader for everything.
  - dotancohen 8mo ago
    As a tmux user, sell me on ghostty. I hate the leader key, especially in VIM.
qsort 8mo ago
AI makes advanced IDE features less relevant (or, more precisely, much easier to ignore or work without.) I still have PyCharm, especially for working with data which I do a lot it helps quite a bit, but by default I'm back to a very vanilla Vim setup. Others have mentioned tmux which is great and I'd use anyway especially over ssh, but even just terminal tabs for instances of agents are fine frankly.
flexagoon 8mo ago
At least for Neovim, there are many official or community-made AI autocomplete plugins, and a bunch of chat interfaces as well
drawnwren 8mo ago
Avante.nvim is quite active
troyvit 8mo ago
I don't use it this way yet, but aider has a watch mode that would be fun with vim: https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html I imagine with vim, from the document you're editing, you'd go: :ter to get a terminal. Fire up aider with --watch-files in the terminal. Hop back up to the file and start telling it what to do. Hit L when it's done to see the changes. That's just a guess but after writing it out I kinda want to try it. When I use aider it's via its chat interface and then I load the file with vim in another terminal tab to follow along but I think --watch-files with vim would be fun.
prinny_ 8mo ago
Does it count if I share my experience with AI and nvim? I use it to update my configuration, discover new plugins, write custom lua code (I don't know lua) and inquire about motions that would help me in specific workflows. I started learning vim motions last summer and AI really lowered the entry barrier and allowed me to focus on the motions rather than the setup. Also related to my nvim workflow but not strictly vim related: I use AI to write and update a bash script that handles tmux windows. Again, it lowered the barrier to entry and it made switching to nvim as my primary editor easier.

I agree and I know what you're saying, but I'm pretty curious: how are people using AI with vim? I've seen some scripts for ollama but what are most people doing?

Carrok 8mo ago

The copilot plugin works well

guerrilla 8mo ago
That's good to know. I've never actually tried Copilot. I was going to try this week.
- metrix 8mo ago
  Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM) Totally worth it

era86 8mo ago

tmux + vim + Claude Code

bicx 8mo ago
This. With so much of my work being done with Claude Code via terminal, I’ve used vim and tmux more than I have in the 20 years since I was first introduced.
- Keyframe 8mo ago
  same, although I'm using zellij instead of tmux. Copilot works well in vim too.
- linhns 8mo ago
  How many people don’t know tmux in the industry is really beyond me.
  - jimmaswell 8mo ago
    What's the elevator pitch if I already know Screen and I can just open multiple windows of the terminal emulator?
    - hibbelig 8mo ago
      I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well. Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’t have skin in the game. Not sure if it helps.
    - mystifyingpoi 8mo ago
      No pitch - just use screen, most people use tmux in exactly the same way - open a few splits and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts.
      - linhns 8mo ago
        Tmux is better supported by other tools, such as fzf.
    - fragmede 8mo ago
      The people GP are talking about don't know about GNU screen either.
  - tommy_axle 8mo ago
    With all the buzz about orchestrating in the age of CLI agents there doesn't seem to be much talk about vim + tmux with send-keys (a blessing). You can run as many windows and panes doing so many different things across multiple projects.
    - prinny_ 8mo ago
sorentwo 8mo ago
Nearly this, but using ghostty instead of tmux. You don’t get the remote connection aspect of tmux, but for splitting/zooming/preserving windows it is fantastic. The best part is you can configure natural shortcuts rather than using a leader for everything.
- dotancohen 8mo ago
  As a tmux user, sell me on ghostty. I hate the leader key, especially in VIM.

qsort 8mo ago

AI makes advanced IDE features less relevant (or, more precisely, much easier to ignore or work without.) I still have PyCharm, especially for working with data which I do a lot it helps quite a bit, but by default I'm back to a very vanilla Vim setup. Others have mentioned tmux which is great and I'd use anyway especially over ssh, but even just terminal tabs for instances of agents are fine frankly.

flexagoon 8mo ago

At least for Neovim, there are many official or community-made AI autocomplete plugins, and a bunch of chat interfaces as well

drawnwren 8mo ago

Avante.nvim is quite active

troyvit 8mo ago

I don't use it this way yet, but aider has a watch mode that would be fun with vim: https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html I imagine with vim, from the document you're editing, you'd go: :ter to get a terminal. Fire up aider with --watch-files in the terminal. Hop back up to the file and start telling it what to do. Hit L when it's done to see the changes. That's just a guess but after writing it out I kinda want to try it. When I use aider it's via its chat interface and then I load the file with vim in another terminal tab to follow along but I think --watch-files with vim would be fun.

prinny_ 8mo ago

Does it count if I share my experience with AI and nvim? I use it to update my configuration, discover new plugins, write custom lua code (I don't know lua) and inquire about motions that would help me in specific workflows. I started learning vim motions last summer and AI really lowered the entry barrier and allowed me to focus on the motions rather than the setup. Also related to my nvim workflow but not strictly vim related: I use AI to write and update a bash script that handles tmux windows. Again, it lowered the barrier to entry and it made switching to nvim as my primary editor easier.