TabNine

An unofficial TabNine (with TabNine Chat supported) package for Emacs.

Screen Recording

TabNine Complete

TabNine Chat

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Classic completions displayed with capf

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If you want to use capf only, disable tabnine-mode .

Setup

Installation

Install TabNine package

TabNine is available on Melpa, you can install it with your favorite package manager.

Example for manual install

• Install tabnine.

Clone or download this repository and add to your load path:

(add-to-list 'load-path "<path-to-tabnine>")
(require 'tabnine)

• Other configurations, e.g. enable tabnine-mode in prog-mode.

(with-eval-after-load 'company
  ;; disable inline previews
  (delq 'company-preview-if-just-one-frontend company-frontends))

(with-eval-after-load 'tabnine
  ;; (kbd "TAB") is literal ctrl-I, (kbd "<tab>) is the actual tab key
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "TAB") #'tabnine-accept-completion)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "<tab>") #'tabnine-accept-completion)

  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-f") #'tabnine-accept-completion-by-word)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-<return>") #'tabnine-accept-completion-by-line)

  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "C-g") #'tabnine-clear-overlay)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-[") #'tabnine-next-completion)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-]") #'tabnine-previous-completion))

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'tabnine-mode)
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook #'tabnine-kill-process)

• Run M-x tabnine-install-binary to install the TabNine binary for your system.

Example for use-package (straight)

(use-package tabnine
  :commands (tabnine-start-process)
  :hook (prog-mode . tabnine-mode)
  :straight t
  :diminish "⌬"
  :custom
  (tabnine-wait 1)
  (tabnine-minimum-prefix-length 0)
  :hook (kill-emacs . tabnine-kill-process)
  :config
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'tabnine-completion-at-point)
  (tabnine-start-process)
  :bind
  (:map  tabnine-completion-map
	 ("<tab>" . tabnine-accept-completion)
	 ("TAB" . tabnine-accept-completion)
	 ("M-f" . tabnine-accept-completion-by-word)
	 ("M-<return>" . tabnine-accept-completion-by-line)
	 ("C-g" . tabnine-clear-overlay)
	 ("M-[" . tabnine-previous-completion)
	 ("M-]" . tabnine-next-completion)))

Example for Doom Emacs

• Add package definition to ~/.doom.d/packages.el:

(package! tabnine)

• Configure tabnine in ~/.doom.d/config.el:

(use-package! tabnine
  :hook ((prog-mode . tabnine-mode)
	 (kill-emacs . tabnine-kill-process))
  :config
  (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions #'tabnine-completion-at-point)
  (tabnine-start-process)
  :bind
  (:map  tabnine-completion-map
	("<tab>" . tabnine-accept-completion)
	("TAB" . tabnine-accept-completion)
	("M-f" . tabnine-accept-completion-by-word)
	("M-<return>" . tabnine-accept-completion-by-line)
	("C-g" . tabnine-clear-overlay)
	("M-[" . tabnine-previous-completion)
	("M-]" . tabnine-next-completion)))

Example for Spacemacs

Edit your ~/.spacemacs:

;; ===================
;; dotspacemacs/layers
;; ===================

;; add or uncomment the auto-completion layer
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'(
  ...
  auto-completion
  ...
  )

;; add tabnine to additional packages
dotspacemacs-additional-packages
'((tabnine))

;; ========================
;; dotspacemacs/user-config
;; ========================

;; accept completion from tabnine and fallback to company
(with-eval-after-load 'company
  ;; disable inline previews
  (delq 'company-preview-if-just-one-frontend company-frontends))

(with-eval-after-load 'tabnine
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "TAB") #'tabnine-accept-completion)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "<tab>") #'tabnine-accept-completion)

  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-f") #'tabnine-accept-completion-by-word)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-<return>") #'tabnine-accept-completion-by-line)

  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "C-g") #'tabnine-clear-overlay)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-[") #'tabnine-next-completion)
  (define-key tabnine-completion-map (kbd "M-]") #'tabnine-previous-completion))

(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'tabnine-mode)
(add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook #'tabnine-kill-process)

Install TabNine binary

After installing the TabNine package, you should finish the installation by executing the interactive command tabnine-install-binary.

TabNine configuration

The advanced features (e.g. advanced completions, TabNine Chat) require a TabNine Pro account. Use tabnine-login command to login your TabNine account.

TabNine Chat predefined prompts

Command	Prompt
tabnine-chat-explain-code	Explain the selected code
tabnine-chat-generate-test-for-code	Write tests for the selected code
tabnine-chat-document-code	Add documentation for the selected code
tabnine-chat-fix-code	Find errors in the selected code and fix them

Customization

tabnine-auto-balance

TabNine can automatically balance parentheses, by removing and adding closing parentheses after the cursor. See the examples here.

Default key bindings

tabnine-mode-map

None.

tabnine-completion-map

Key	Action
TAB	tabnine-accept-completion
C-g	tabnine-clear-overlay
M-f	tabnine-accept-completion-by-word
M-<return>	tabnine-accept-completion-by-line
M-[	tabnine-previous-completion
M-]	tabnine-next-completion

tabnine-chat-mode-map

Key	Action
C-c RET	tabnine-chat-send

Known Issues

Heavy memory and CPU usage

• TabNine’s local deep learning completion might be enabled by default. It is very CPU-intensive if your device can’t handle it. You can check by typing “TabNine::config” in any buffer (your browser should then automatically open to TabNine’s config page) and disable Deep TabNine Local (you will lose local deep learning completion). More details here.

ICON displayed error

If candidate icons of tabnine are displayed wrongly capf icon error, try to set kind-icon-mapping for tabnine:

• With all-the-icons

(add-to-list 'kind-icon-mapping '(tabnine "ai" :icon "cloud" :face shadow) t)

• With all-the-icons-nerd-fonts

(add-to-list 'kind-icon-mapping `(tabnine ,(nerd-icons-codicon "nf-cod-hubot") :face font-lock-warning-face) t)

Requirements

• Emacs 27.1 or later

Thanks

Thanks to the great work of Tommy Xiang, zerolfx and karthink.

These projects helped me a lot:

https://github.com/TommyX12/company-tabnine

https://github.com/50ways2sayhard/tabnine-capf

https://github.com/zerolfx/copilot.el

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

License

Licensed under GPLv3.