---
title: Trying GitHub Copilot in neovim
slug: trying-github-copilot-in-neovim
published_at: 2021-12-04 02:05:16 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:48 +0000
summary: 
description: 
tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, javascript, copilot, neovim, nvim]
views: 7147
author: CJ Avilla
url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/trying-github-copilot-in-neovim
youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAYSPU2swAg
youtube_id: lAYSPU2swAg
embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/lAYSPU2swAg
thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lAYSPU2swAg/hqdefault.jpg
type: video
---

# Trying GitHub Copilot in neovim

*Published: December 04, 2021*
*Views: 7147*

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## Description



## Transcript

what's up let's check out github co-pilot inside of vim so here on github there's this copilot.vim project from t-pope i forked it to add this little note about if you're using an m1 you've got to go use the node version 16 plus so i had to use i use nodenf to update my node version you need to install neovim this is my first like go at using neovim so if you're new to it like i don't know check it out and then i just used vim plug to install copilot and then once you've got it up and running you can you run this command copilot setup it'll give you like a six digit code and ask you to open your browser you open your browser it authenticates you enter in that six digit code and then you're all set up so let's do something fun so advent of code day one dot rb and then if we just say like i don't know we start making a comment that's like advent of code and then it automatically added day one um author james walker who's james walker that's not me i don't know uh all right let's try creating a session session or maybe like uh how about we do uh yeah like um stripe thing so check out session equals stripe check out session.create sure sure sure all right that's looking pretty good i actually don't need payment method types i can do like uh mode payment um this is actually like a really old-school way of doing line items too so let's see oh what okay so i dropped in someone else's price id uh that's interesting oh quantity one that's definitely important uh i've already got that in the hash though so that like context awareness like aware of like other things in the file is odd but whatever like i guess i don't know how to remove the suggestion either how do i do i just okay uh all right so yeah co-pilot inside of uh neo-vim it's fun i don't know if that's gonna get too annoying but um yeah excited to play around with it

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