Keybindings, usage examples

[ptman]

Now with free gemini ( https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-code-assist-free/ ) this is quite an interesting vim plugin. Does it use the free gemini code assist or something else?

For me the videos don't really explain how to use this plugin.

:GeminiChat doesn't seem to use the current file as context. Or at least it generates python code for me in a golang file.

[rakotomandimby]

@ptman ,

The free Gemini code assist does not seem to be available via API.

It is only available as an extension or plugin for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs,

I guess in order to have it for Neovim, someone has to reverse engineer those plugin (If it is even legal...)

[kiddos]

I added :GeminiTask command recently. It uses the opened buffers as current context. I made it so that it outputs git diff. You can try to customize it with the settings:

  task = {
    enabled = true,
    get_system_text = function()
      return 'You are an AI assistant that helps user write code.\n'
        .. 'Your output should be a code diff for git.'
    end,
    get_prompt = function(bufnr, user_prompt)
      local buffers = vim.api.nvim_list_bufs()
      local file_contents = {}

      for _, b in ipairs(buffers) do
        if vim.api.nvim_buf_is_loaded(b) then -- Only get content from loaded buffers
          local lines = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_lines(b, 0, -1, false)
          local filename = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(b)
          filename = vim.fn.fnamemodify(filename, ":.")
          local filetype = vim.api.nvim_get_option_value('filetype', { buf = b })
          local file_content = table.concat(lines, "\n")
          file_content = string.format("`%s`:\n\n```%s\n%s\n```\n\n", filename, filetype, file_content)
          table.insert(file_contents, file_content)
        end
      end

      local current_filepath = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(bufnr)
      current_filepath = vim.fn.fnamemodify(current_filepath, ":.")

      local context = table.concat(file_contents, "\n\n")
      return string.format('%s\n\nCurrent Opened File: %s\n\nTask: %s',
        context, current_filepath, user_prompt)
    end
  },

It doesn't really work sometimes 🤕 .

The VSCode video in the link seems to work pretty well. I could try to prompt it to modify the original code and extract code block.

[ptman]

GeminiTask seems to work. GeminiApply doesn't. And keybindings aren't listed

[kiddos]

I tried a different way to prompt it. It works a bit better now.

[fionnafire]

this seems pretty cool but I cant figure out the keybindings!

[kiddos]

I added some docs: doc/gemini.nvim.txt hope this would help.

[kiddos]

for :GeminiTask, you could sort of change the get_prompt function, and put the entire codebase (maybe just files with the same extension) into gemini, since it's got really large context window.

[mcepl]

How to make a multiline prompt? It really doesn’t help, that I don’t seem to have a way how to send a backtrace to Gemini.

[kiddos]

yeah, currently :GeminiTask can only input single line text. It will need a multiline UI to prompt long text to it.