Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- neovim [2025/07/18 22:27] – [Copilot Chat] dblume
+++ neovim [2025/10/17 17:07] (current) – [Updating Copilot and Copilot Chat] dblume
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 [[https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md#snap-do-not-use|GitHub recommends against snap for gh]], and in WSL2, although I had ''snap'', it didn't work, so I [[https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/INSTALL.md#install-from-download|downloaded the tarball]]. (If you click Linux, it'll download the tarball. Otherwise [[https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases|scroll down and find/expand "Assets"]].) Then I extracted it into $HOME/.local/bin/.
+  uname -m  # x86_64
   cd ~/.local/bin/
-  wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim-linux64.tar.gz
+  wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/stable/nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
-  tar -xvf nvim-linux64.tar.gz
+  tar -xvf nvim-linux64.tar.gz.1
   ln -s nvim-linux64/bin/nvim nvim
@@ Line 38: / Line 39: @@
 git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim
 git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim
+</code>
+===== Updating Copilot and Copilot Chat =====
+This is a manual process because I only want to do it when I'm ready to handle backwards incompatibilities.
+Update Copilot autosuggest:
+<code bash>
+mkdir ~/backup
+mv ~/.config/nvim/pack/github ~/backup/
+git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/github/copilot.vim.git ~/.config/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim
+# Test auto suggest. If it works, delete the backup and the /.git dir...
+rm -rf ~/backup/github
+rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/pack/github/start/copilot.vim/.git
+</code>
+Update Copilot Chat:
+<code bash>
+mv ~/.config/nvim/pack/copilotchat ~/backup/
+mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/pack/copilotchat/start
+cd ~/.config/nvim/pack/copilotchat/start
+git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim
+git clone --filter=blob:none --single-branch https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim
+# If WSL, see if you have to fix XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
+# Test :CopilotChat. If it works, delete the backups and the /.git dir...
+rm -rf ~/backup/copilotchat
+rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/pack/copilotchat/start/CopilotChat.nvim/.git
+rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/pack/copilotchat/start/plenary.nvim/.git
+rmdir ~/backup
 </code>
@@ Line 63: / Line 93: @@
 Optional, [[https://github.com/CopilotC-Nvim/CopilotChat.nvim/wiki/Examples-and-Tips#markdown-rendering|MarkDown rendering]]:
 <code bash>