Manual Install

[rmiller438]

I'm running into _COPILOT_CHAT_GLOBAL_CONFIG is null error after following the instructions for a manual install.

I see that this is being set during the setup options in init.lua.

NVIM: v0.9.4

Here's my current directory structure in ~/.config/nvim

~/.config/nvim
  |_ init.vim
  |_ pack/
     |_ github/
        |_ start/
            |_ CopilotChat.nvim/
            |_ copilot.vim/
   |_ rplugin/ (created by `cp -r --backup=nil rplugin ~/.config/nvim/`)

And here's my init.vim at the moment

set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
let &packpath = &runtimepath
source ~/.vimrc

" ====[ CopilotChat ]=========================================
let g:python3_host_prog = '/usr/bin/python3.11'
let g:copilot_chat_disable_separators = 'yes'
let g:copilot_chat_proxy = ''

I'm a longtime vim user trying to switch to neovim for the first time to take advantage of this plugin, so I'm hoping I'm missing things obvious to others.

Also okay if that answer is that I'm taking the harder route of transition by trying to stick to vim script instead of just diving full on into neovim+lua so just do the other thing.

Thanks!

[rmiller438]

I was able to spend some time going through the (maybe?) proper transition to neovim using LazyVim.

I'm sure there will be a bit of a learning curve/adaption period to this setup as it has way more plugins enabled by default than I'm used to and is overwriting some long ago configurations in my .vimrc.

But can report that the plugin works easily and as expected by following the install instructions for Lazy.nvim.