vi-llm is basically a wrapper for llm that
gets all of its prompts from Vim, enabling an interactive communication with
ChatGPT using llm, by letting you input a message through the vim editor, then
sending that message to the LLM interface. subsequently displaying any logs
received from the interface right back in your text editor, repeatedly, until
the user quitting the vim editor without doing any changes. In essence, it
operates similarly to a chat interface. You type in messages (or commands)
which get sent to the LLM system, and any response from the LLM system gets
displayed back to you. This cycle continues, enabling continuous, interactive
communication with the LLM from your command line.
The arguments that you provide to vi-llm is passed into llm. This means
you can still use templates, provide a conservation id, or set system messages,
like you use in llm. The usage of chat command becomes unnecessary in
vi-llm, since vi-llm is essentially a wrapper for llm that
implements the chat command in a more interactive way.
To read about how I use llm and vi-llm, you can check out my essay.
First, you need to install simonw/llm.
Then, put the vi-llm file in an area that's defined in your PATH environment variable.
Once this is done, you are ready to get started.