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> I work almost exclusively in Emacs without the modern LSP-based tools

I'm wondering how many people in the comments would misinterpret it as "Emacs is outdated"/"Emacs does not have modern LSP-based tools"

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I was about to switch from Emacs when I found TIDE for Typescript development (which is what I do), and it kept me in Emacs for years longer.

Recently though I couldn't resist experimenting with Copilot and I switched to VS code for it, after 32 years. Is there a good Emacs module for it by now?

I've not used copilot outside of emacs, but copilot-mode does everything I would want for code generation.

I don't know whether there is Copilot module for Emacs, sorry. I'm more of a fan of gptel approach https://github.com/karthink/gptel with explicit context and instructions.

I've been using copilot-mode in emacs for probably a couple of years.

There's definitely a lot of choices in Emacs land for these new LLM tools. There's copilot mode, chatgpt shell, gptel, theres so'e more from other AI startups. Plus writing LLM integrations for Emacs is a breeze with everything being text buffers.

The reason I spelled it out is because I don't use them even though they are available. I realise now that what I wrote is ambiguous, thanks for mentioning it.

But that's bullshit. emacs has had most of the tools that LSP enables, it just had that only for some languages that had better emacs modes (C, elisp, Common Lisp etc.). All LSP is doing is making it easier to write modes for new languages really. emacs with eglot (not the LSP modes which are generally terrible) is a great IDE, and does thing the emacs way. Saying you use emacs but don't like "LSP" feels like a joke to me. The very reason SLIME was so great decades before IDEs became mainstream was that it was already a powerful IDE, it just does the IDE things a bit different than you're probably used to.

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