Engineering in the el world

Today I started to go through some Emacs plugin repositories that I use and try to fix some warnings. In particular, I want to try copilot in Emacs. I found copilot.el. There are some warnings in Emacs 29.1, like docstring.

Some hints:

• compile the current buffer with M-x byte-compile-file.
• Use the repository as an additional package in Spacemacs using

  (copilot :location (recipe :fetcher github :repo "copilot-emacs/copilot.el" :files ("*.el" "dist")))
  

This is for repositories located on GitHub. See melpa recipe for any other format. On my side, I’m gonna use a fork on the main repositories until the PRs are merged. For this, I use:

(copilot :location (recipe :fetcher github :repo "dannywillems/copilot.el" :branch "dw/main" :files ("*.el" "dist")))

It is essentially the main branch with all PRs merged.

Results of the day regarding el engineering:

• trying to use, again, VSCode. I learnt how to use CTRL+SHIFT+P to access the configuration list. Switched to WINDOWS-X as in Spacemacs.
• I noticed I wanted to switch to VSCode only for Copilot. Therefore, I thought about integrating it in Emacs.
• Found copilot.el
• Fixing some warnings and aesthetic changes, see https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/234, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/235, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/236, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/237, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/238, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/239, https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/240
• I updated copilot.el to use copilot.vim: https://github.com/copilot-emacs/copilot.el/pull/240. I don’t know if it is simply updating the dist directory. I’ll try for some days/weeks.

This article might be updated in the future.