Codeium Chat?

[knevan]

Can codeium open a chat buffer like in Vs-code or Jetbrains IDE? because after I installed via LazyExtras and did :Codeium Chat nothing happened.

[rv-mtoohig]

My codeium chat opens in my browser and I would prefer it open in a buffer like https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim but more importantly I don't mind browser if only I could insert the suggested changes from the browser to my buffer like what the plugin for JetBrains can do and Avante.

[ragnarok22]

I was messing around with buffers, and win, etc and I create a rudimentary chat and it is compatible with openAI. The Codeium team can use my code, improve it and integrate my code for their Codeium Chat. I will love to see it. Here is my repo. The license is MIT

[jakubbortlik]

Hi there, actually, I'd consider an integrated Chat much more useful than autocompletion. There's been an attempt to add chat actions to the plugin, but it seems abandoned.

More importantly, having chat in a browser window is a possible workaround, but the user experience for me would be really inferior in comparison to in-editor chat.

Instead of developing a custom solution, I think it makes much more sense to use an existing plugin like CodeCompanion and to only write an adapter for Windsurf and let the other plugin do all the UI work.

I've received some basic hints from the author of CodeCompanion on how to start investigating the Windsurf API, but I'd really appreciate if Exafunction (tagging @pqn as one of the contributors 😃 I've noticed in the chats) as the principal author of windsurf.nvim would help adding an adapter for CodeCompanion.

The company where I'm working is paying for our Windsurf license but without a usable Chat in Neovim I'm not getting anywhere near the same bang for the buck as my colleagues who are using Windsurf in Pycharm or other editors.

[ragnarok22]

Hi @jakubbortlik, you can try avante.nvim, it's bulky for me but that's the only good solution that I found. It supports copilot, openai, anthropic, etc. I'm not sure if they have support for windsurf.

[jakubbortlik]

Hi @jakubbortlik, you can try avante.nvim, it's bulky for me but that's the only good solution that I found. It supports copilot, openai, anthropic, etc. I'm not sure if they have support for windsurf.

Hi @ragnarok22, thanks for the suggestion, I'm aware of Avante but they don't support Windsurf out of the box either. And I want to use specifically Windsurf as opposed to the other options (copilot, openai, etc.) because my employer is already paying for Windsurf and they don't want us to send our companies code to other LLM providers for obvious reasons.

I mentioned CodeCompanion in my post because they at least have a well described API for building new adapters. What I'm missing is a well described API for Windsurf to be able to bring the two together.

[hirenp]

Current browser based chat experience is really subpar.