# llama.vim

Local LLM-assisted text completion.

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#### Fill-in-Middle (FIM) completions

![llama vim-spec-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/404ebc2a-e4b8-4119-999b-e5365ec3208d)

#### Instruction-based editing

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/641a6e72-f1a2-4fe5-b0fd-c2597c6f4cdc

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68bff15b-2d91-4800-985d-b7f110a0ccb7

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## Features

- Auto-suggest on cursor movement in `Insert` mode
- Accept a suggestion with `Tab`
- Accept the first line of a suggestion with `Shift+Tab`
- Instruction-based editing with `<leader>lli`
- Control max text generation time
- Configure scope of context around the cursor
- Ring context with chunks from open and edited files and yanked text
- [Supports very large contexts even on low-end hardware via smart context reuse](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/9787)
- Display performance stats

## Installation

### Plugin setup

- vim-plug

    ```vim
    Plug 'ggml-org/llama.vim'
    ```

- Vundle

    ```bash
    cd ~/.vim/bundle
    git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim
    ```

    Then add `Plugin 'llama.vim'` to your *.vimrc* in the `vundle#begin()` section.

- lazy.nvim

    ```lua
    {
        'ggml-org/llama.vim',
    }
    ```

### Plugin configuration

You can customize *llama.vim* by setting the `g:llama_config` variable.

Examples:

1. Disable the inline info:

    ```vim
    " put before llama.vim loads
    let g:llama_config = { 'show_info': 0 }
    ```

2. Same thing but setting directly

    ```vim
    let g:llama_config.show_info = v:false
    ```

3. Disable auto FIM (Fill-In-the-Middle) completion with lazy.nvim

    ```lua
    {
        'ggml-org/llama.vim',
        init = function()
            vim.g.llama_config = {
                auto_fim = false,
            }
        end,
    }
    ```

4. Configure FIM keymaps:

    ```vim
    let g:llama_config.keymap_fim_trigger     = "<leader>llf"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_fim_accept_full = "<Tab>"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_fim_accept_line = "<S-Tab>"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_fim_accept_word = "<leader>ll]"
    ```

5. Configure instruction-based editing keymaps

    ```vim
    let g:llama_config.keymap_inst_trigger  = "<leader>lli"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_inst_retry    = "<leader>llr"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_inst_continue = "<leader>llc"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_inst_accept   = "<Tab>"
    let g:llama_config.keymap_inst_cancel   = "<Esc>"
    ```

Please refer to `:help llama_config` or the [source](./autoload/llama.vim)
for the full list of options.

### llama.cpp setup

The plugin requires a [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp) server instance to be running at [`g:llama_config.endpoint_fim`](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim/blob/master/autoload/llama.vim#L18) and/or [`g:llama_config.endpoint_inst`](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vim/blob/master/autoload/llama.vim#L19).

#### Mac OS

```bash
brew install llama.cpp
```

#### Windows

```bash
winget install llama.cpp
```

#### Any other OS

Either build from source or use the latest binaries: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases

### llama.cpp settings

Here are recommended settings, depending on the amount of VRAM that you have:

- More than 64GB VRAM:

  ```bash
  llama-server --fim-qwen-30b-default
  ```

- More than 16GB VRAM:

  ```bash
  llama-server --fim-qwen-7b-default
  ```

- Less than 16GB VRAM:

  ```bash
  llama-server --fim-qwen-3b-default
  ```

- Less than 8GB VRAM:

  ```bash
  llama-server --fim-qwen-1.5b-default
  ```

Use `:help llama` for more details.

### Recommended LLMs

The plugin requires FIM-compatible models: [HF collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/ggml-org/llamavim-6720fece33898ac10544ecf9)

## Examples

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### Using `llama.vim` on M1 Pro (2021) with `Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B Q8_0`:

image

The orange text is the generated suggestion. The green text contains performance stats for the FIM request: the currently used context is `15186` tokens and the maximum is `32768`. There are `30` chunks in the ring buffer with extra context (out of `64`). So far, `1` chunk has been evicted in the current session and there are `0` chunks in queue. The newly computed prompt tokens for this request were `260` and the generated tokens were `24`. It took `1245 ms` to generate this suggestion after entering the letter `c` on the current line.

### Using `llama.vim` on M2 Ultra with `Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Q8_0`:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f1eb408-8ac2-4bd2-b2cf-6ab7d6816754

Demonstrates that the global context is accumulated and maintained across different files and showcases the overall latency when working in a large codebase.

### Another example on a small Swift code

![llama vim-swift](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/206c8399-ff73-495d-ba67-65725138c021)

## Implementation details

The plugin aims to be very simple and lightweight and at the same time to provide high-quality and performant local FIM completions, even on consumer-grade hardware. Read more on how this is achieved in the following links:

- Initial implementation and technical description: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/9787
- Classic Vim support: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/9995

## Other IDEs

- VS Code: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vscode
