zbirenbaum / zbirenbaum/copilot.lua
Check first (n?) characters of a suggestion
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Description
So I probably hate myself more than most people and want to use <Tab> for completions :)
But I'm trying to dynamically check if the first (few?) characters of a suggestion are \t, in which case I'll simply passthrough the Tab key. I am sort of able to do this right now with suggestion.accept(<function>), but I think it'd be a quick and user friendly addition to either provide a method to get the first (n?) chars of a suggestion, or take in a string and match it against its text. E.g.:
local first_5 = suggestion.get_n_chars(5)
-- or
local starts_with_tab = suggestion.startswith('\t')
Anyway, cheers for the amazing plugin!
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Research direction
Start by reading the suggestion API around suggestion.accept(function) and trace how suggestion text is exposed during completion handling. Determine the smallest API shape for inspecting a prefix or matching a starting string, then verify that a suggestion beginning with a tab can be detected without accepting it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua, neovim
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100