Danny Willems -- Work In Progress

A mathematician fighting for privacy and security on the Internet, while dreaming about describing the Universe with equations and symbols. Cryptography researcher and engineer. Founder of BaDaaS. Building Papyrus and cryptography.academy. Co-founder of LeakIX.

Engineering in the el world

January 13, 2024 | Danny Willems

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.