ChatGPT-Arcana

About

🔮 Put ChatGPT in your Emacs and give yourself arcane powers 🔮

ChatGPT-Arcana is an Emacs package that lets you chat with ChatGPT directly from emacs, operate on your code or text, generate eshell commands from natural language, and more.

Usage

There are various interactive functions available. Some of them even work. This package provides the following functionality:

• Chat with GPT in Emacs with chatgpt-arcana-chat-start-chat or chatgpt-arcana-chat-start-chat-with-system-prompt. Automatically sends the selected region, if there is one.
• Chat buffer auto-naming (modify prompt with custom var chatgpt-arcana-generated-buffer-name-prompt).
• Chat session autosave and automatic file naming (disable with custom varchatgpt-arcana-chat-autosave-enabled, modify save directory with chatgpt-arcana-chat-autosave-directory).
• Automatically handles token overflow for chats with several available strategies (chatgpt-arcana-token-overflow-strategy and chatgpt-arcana-token-overflow-token-goal)
• Operate on your text or code with chatgpt-arcana-replace-region, chatgpt-arcana-insert-at-point-with-context, and several others.
• Use the spell eshell command to convert natural language into shell commands (when including extras/chatgpt-arcana-eshell).
• Automatically fix errors at point from flycheck or flymake with chatgpt-arcana-autofix (when including extras/chatgpt-arcana-autofix).
• Automatically write commit messages with chatgpt-arcana-commitmsg (when including extras/chatgpt-arcana-commitmsg)
• [Very experimental] Create an agent that can use tools including web search and code eval with query-loop (when including extras/chatgpt-arcana-react)

Examples

Create and edit code

demo1.mp4

Write a doc about ffmpeg in org-mode

demo2.mp4

Explain code in the selected region

demo3.mp4

Have a lovely chat

chatgpt-jedi-2023-03-03_12.18.52.mp4

Installation

ChatGPT-Arcana isn’t on melpa or elpa. You can use use-package to install from github:

(use-package chatgpt-arcana
  :straight (:host github :repo "CarlQLange/ChatGPT-Arcana.el" :files ("*.el"))
  :init (setq chatgpt-arcana-api-key "your-api-key-here"))

You may wish to use .authinfo or similar to hold your API key. You can do this by creating or adding to your ~/.authinfo file like the following:

machine chat.openai.com login YOUR_CHATGPT_EMAIL_HERE password YOUR_API_KEY_HERE

and using the line

(setq chatgpt-arcana-api-key (auth-source-pick-first-password
                                              :host "chat.openai.com"))

in your config.

My own config adds a few extra parts that don't need to be part of the package.

(use-package chatgpt-arcana
  :straight (:host github :repo "CarlQLange/ChatGPT-Arcana.el" :files ("*.el"))
  :init (setq chatgpt-arcana-api-key "your-api-key-here")
  :config 
  (use-package all-the-icons
    :config
    (add-to-list 'all-the-icons-mode-icon-alist
                 '(chatgpt-arcana-chat-mode all-the-icons-octicon "comment-discussion" :height 1.0 :v-adjust -0.1 :face all-the-icons-purple)))

(defun chatgpt-arcana-generate-prompt-shortcuts ()
  "Generate a list of hydra commands for `chatgpt-arcana-common-prompts-alist'."
  (mapcar (lambda (prompt)
            (let* ((identifier (car prompt))
                   (label (capitalize (symbol-name identifier)))
                   (key (concat "s" (substring (symbol-name identifier) 0 1)))
                   (command `(,key
                              (lambda () (interactive)
                                (chatgpt-arcana-query,(cdr prompt)))
                              ,label)))
              command))
          chatgpt-arcana-common-prompts-alist))
  
  (use-package pretty-hydra
    :config
    (eval `(pretty-hydra-define chatgpt-arcana-hydra (:color blue :quit-key "q" :title "ChatGPT Arcana")
             ("Query"
              (("a" chatgpt-arcana-query "Query")
               ("r" chatgpt-arcana-replace-region "Replace region"))
              "Insert"
              (("i" chatgpt-arcana-insert-at-point-with-context "At point with context")
               ("I" chatgpt-arcana-insert-at-point "At point")
               ("j" chatgpt-arcana-insert-after-region "Before region")
               ("J" chatgpt-arcana-insert-before-region "After region"))
              "Chat"
              (("c" chatgpt-arcana-start-chat "Start chat"))
              "Shortcuts"
              (,@(chatgpt-arcana-generate-prompt-shortcuts))))))

  (map! :leader
        :prefix ("[" . "ChatGPT")
        :desc "Start chat" :g "c" #'chatgpt-arcana-start-chat
        :desc "Start chat" :g "[" #'chatgpt-arcana-start-chat
        :desc "Open Hydra" :g "h" #'chatgpt-arcana-hydra/body))

You are going to want to add a keymap of your own, that's for sure :)

I have to stress at this point that this package is very new, and I only wrote it to scratch an itch. Sorry if it turns you into a chicken or something.

Requirements

You will need to have an API key from OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model to use this package, and set it as chatgpt-arcana-api-key. You can sign up for an API key on the OpenAI website. Depending on how much you use the package, the API cost may vary.

I strongly recommend setting a low usage limit on your account to stop runaway spending. The default model is quite cheap but it costs nothing to be prudent.

Limitations

I have done exactly zero work in terms of compatibility. It works on my machine, sometimes. Maybe it'll even work on yours. Also, even though ChatGPT is pretty much the largest computing leap since the iPhone, it has its own limitations. Particularly, I've noticed it's pretty terrible at writing org-mode - I guess due to a lack of source data. Hence, the chatgpt-arcana-chat-mode is based on Markdown.

Credits

This package was developed by Carl Lange with judicious help from ChatGPT.

Other contributors and contributions:

• GitHub user macownersclub for PR #6
• GitHub user vxe for authinfo tip in issue #8

License

This package is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Important note: code generated by ChatGPT probably has a massive license headache attached to it and may result in RMS eating your dog.