Danny Willems -- Work In Progress

A mathematician dreaming about describing the Universe with equations and symbols.

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.