helix-gpt

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Code assistant language server for Helix with support for Copilot/OpenAI/Codeium.

Installation

Without Bun

wget https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/releases/download/0.34/helix-gpt-0.34-x86_64-linux.tar.gz \
-O /tmp/helix-gpt.tar.gz \
&& tar -zxvf /tmp/helix-gpt.tar.gz \
&& sudo mv helix-gpt-0.34-x86_64-linux /usr/bin/helix-gpt \
&& sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/helix-gpt

With Bun

wget https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/releases/download/0.34/helix-gpt-0.34.js -O /usr/bin/helix-gpt

Configuration

Info

For complete instructions, refer to the project’s README on GitHub.

Copilot

To obtain the copilot token, execute the following command after Installation.

helix-gpt --authCopilot

It will ask you to open GitHub’s device registration page and input the 8 character code. After that it should automatically display the obtained token.

Simply store that in the COPILOT_API_KEY environment variable, in my case, as I’m using fish, it’s as easy as

set -Ux COPILOT_API_KEY ghu_TOKEN

Replace

• ghu_TOKEN: Your obtained Copilot API token

Set the HANDLER environment variable to copilot (I’m using fish again)

set -Ux HANDLER copilot

Helix

No further configuration should be necessary for the gpt language server itself, as I’ve already included a configuration with my Dotfiles.

But in general, you want to add gpt to the language-servers array of a particular language you want to support within the languages.toml file.

Tip

You can either add it to the global file in ~/.config/helix file, or even better configure this on a per-project basis, by using a project-local .helix directory!

Example

languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "python"
language-servers = ["pyright", "pylsp", "gpt"]

You can easily view the list of default language servers for each language to make sure you don’t omit any default ones when adding gpt.