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What stance is that? Last I checked they were still figuring out how to extend the editor in general.

Reading this thread, I really like the idea of an IPC mechanism like Kakoune uses (and Neovim has IIRC)

If this were the case, integrating copilot or other ao tools would become pretty straightforward!

Yeah, that's basically the case. They don't have a plugin system, afaik it's still in the planning phase. They have LSP support, but copilot is a non-standard kind of LSP, and last time I looked the devs weren't interested in doing the integration work needed to get it all working nicely.

Can't say I blame them, it's their project after all. Just frustrating because I would totally use helix if not for the lack of that one feature. I actually still use it, but just as a quick way to make edits in the CLI, and not for full time dev. It's a great editor and project nonetheless.

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