Complete, Edit Code and Text in Emacs using OpenAI Codex
- API Key with access to OpenAI’s Codex You can get on the Codex beta waitlist by enrolling here
- Direct Install
- Put
codex-completion.el
in your Emacs load path. For e.g~/.emacs.d/lisp
- Load via use-package in your
~/.emacs.d/init.el
or.emacs
file by adding below snippet;; Codex Completion Package (use-package codex-completion :load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/codex-completion.el" :bind ("C-c ." . 'codex-completion) :config (setq codex-completion-openai-api-token <YOUR_OPENAI_API_TOKEN>))
- Put
- Using straight.el
- Ensure straight.el, straight-use-package are setup
- Add below snippet to your emacs config, e.g
~/.emacs.d/init.el
and evaluate it;; Codex-Completion Package (use-package codex-completion :straight (codex-completion :type git :host github :repo "debanjum/codex-completion") :bind ("C-c ." . 'codex-completion) :config (setq codex-completion-openai-api-token <YOUR_OPENAI_API_TOKEN>))
- Note: Procedure to install using Quelpa etc are similar to straight.el
- Mark/highlight region to Edit
- Call
C-u M-x codex-completion
- Enter your edit instructions for Codex at prompt
This will replace the highlighted region with the edit response from Codex
- Call
M-x codex-completion
This will insert code provided by Codex at point. It will use the current paragraph as context
- Mark region to use as context to Codex for Completion
- Call
M-x codex-completion
This will insert code provided by Codex at point. It will use the active region as context
Codex was instrumental in writing this tool.
Codex seems to understand the OpenAI API response schema.
Notice the choices
, text
keys used in the codex-get-completions
function below
- Prompt to Codex
;; define a elisp function to query OpenAI davinci codex at https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/davinci/completions for completion suggestions
- Response from Codex
;; define a elisp function to query OpenAI davinci codex at https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/davinci/completions for completion suggestions (defun codex-query (query) "Query OpenAI davinci codex at https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/davinci/completions for completion suggestions" (let ((url-request-method "POST") (url-request-extra-headers '(("Content-Type" . "application/json") ("Authorization" . "Bearer ") ("User-Agent" . "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36") ("Accept" . "application/json") ("Accept-Language" . "en-US,en;q=0.8"))) (url-request-data (json-encode `(("text" . ,query)))) (url-show-status nil)) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://api.openai.com/v1/engines/davinci/completions") (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "^$") (json-read)))) ;; define a elisp function to get the completion suggestions from the json response (defun codex-get-completions (json) "Get the completion suggestions from the json response" (let ((completions (cdr (assoc 'choices json)))) (mapcar (lambda (completion) (cdr (assoc 'text completion))) completions)))