Every LLM in Emacs, with gptel

GPTel is a simple LLM client for Emacs. It's always available but stays out of your way.

It supports ChatGPT/Azure, Ollama, Gemini, Kagi and more.

00:00 The pitch
00:27 Installation and basic usage
04:00 Fun with LLM system messages
04:27 Example: GPT-4 as a scientific calculator
05:47 Example: GPT-4 as a thesaurus
07:07 gptel's design
07:55 Redirecting input and output
08:04 Example: Redirect both to the minibuffer
08:32 Example: Redirect and continue a conversation
10:37 Design objective: be invisible, but always available
11:04 Example: Fixing LaTeX in-place
12:08 Example: A just-in-time shell commands
13:09 Example: just-in-time Emacs discovery
13:38 Design objective: a small surface area
13:57 Two kinds of consistency: external and internal interface
14:13 Example: Multi-LLM demo
15:53 Design objective: Focus on text
16:46 Commonly requested behaviors, gptel-request
17:47 Sign-off

Since I always get questions about the visuals:
Emacs theme: modus-operandi
Fonts: Iosevka Comfy Motion (monospace), Merriweather (Serif)
Other packages used: spacious-padding, olivetti, popper

[MitchGalgz]

I want my Emacs-based Cursor replacement! We'll get there soon enough with fantastic projects like this one.

[lucian]

Fantastic. A brilliant example of what makes Emacs so powerful.

[sethbrown]

Very impressive!
My mind is literally boggled! :)

Thank you for sharing this video

[mrkrud]

Revolutionary! I will get this set up and enhance my work day immediately!!
An elegant implementation. Thank you.

[goofansu]

Thank you! I just installed gptel and use it in the last weekend, really appreciate the work.

[hooxenv]

this is such an amazing package thank you for creating it! Humbling! 🎉🎉🎉

[worldgeektube]

Tremendous work with an entertaining video tooc Can't wait to try it!

[ducksies]

It works way better than I expected. Great work!

[ujjal]

Youtube Gods graced me to discover this channel - subbed btw!

[cloudartisean]

Just wanted to say, this package is amazing. Thank you for creating it and this video. I was using the package prior, but with this video I feel like its usage will be even better!

[HugoNobrega]

LLMs are not my cup of tea, but still I just had to comment and commend you on yet another stellar combo of package and video demo! Honestly awe inspiring stuff! :)

[stefanhoromnea]

This is fantastic! kept me up until late playing with this. Many thanks for your work. One question, where can I read more about the difference between "system message" and "directive"? And when I used gptel-send, the content until the cursor point is used, as I understand. is that a "system message" or "directive"? which of those is the "prompt" from ChatGPT? Where can we ask more questions like this? Any plans for a discord channel?

[holgerschurig]

I already had Ollama installed, and now I have it inside Emacs. BTW; i added some directives:

(add-to-list 'gptel-directives '(english . "Translate the following to english:"))
(add-to-list 'gptel-directives '(deutsch . "Translate the following to german:"))
(add-to-list 'gptel-directives '(typo . "Fix typos, grammar and style of the following:"))

However, I feel that the "h" submenu of gptel-menu is quite obnoxious. Do I really have to Ctrl-G (usually a hard quite, abort) to get out of it? Why not let me get out via ESC or RET? I mean, even when I press one of these texts, it says "Use 'C-g' to abort. But I expect "abort" to not change the prompt, but keep it as-is. And that there exists some way to just set the prompt.

[jimmcleod]

I continue to be impressed with this package. I am attempting to replicate your session. How do you get to mark-down mode around 2:13? Do you have this set as a default when addressing Gemini? Would you mind showing us your config specific settings for this demo?

[goofansu]

14:24 Did you implement the Kagi FastGPT with gptel? I cannot find it in gptel, is there any plan to add it to gptel? Thanks

[chuckyurek]

I cannot have two gptel's running separately when i open another buffer it just mirrors the other gptel so I can't use 2 llms wondering if this is a windows problem?

[tcmidorfeb]

Hi there, could you tell me what font that is? Thank you.

[ismbks]

i think i tried it on windows some time ago and it didnt work so i gave up (something about curl)

[goofansu]

9:39 The org-mode buffer seems live rendered, how do you do that?

[weiSane]

The very first crime you committed was not using dark mode. It’s against the law