Ellama

Ellama is a tool for interacting with large language models from Emacs. It allows you to ask questions and receive responses from the LLMs. Ellama can perform various tasks such as translation, code review, summarization, enhancing grammar/spelling or wording and more through the Emacs interface. Ellama natively supports streaming output, making it effortless to use with your preferred text editor.

The name “ellama” is derived from “Emacs Large LAnguage Model Assistant”. Previous sentence was written by Ellama itself.

Installation

Just M-x package-install Enter ellama Enter. By default it uses ollama provider and zephyr model. If you ok with it, you need to install ollama and pull zephyr like this:

ollama pull zephyr

You can use ellama with other model or other llm provider. In that case you should customize ellama configuration like this:

;; YOU DON'T NEED NONE OF THIS CODE FOR SIMPLE INSTALL
;; IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF CUSTOMIZATION.
(use-package ellama
  :init
  ;; setup key bindings
  (setopt ellama-keymap-prefix "C-c e")
  ;; language you want ellama to translate to
  (setopt ellama-language "German")
  ;; could be llm-openai for example
  (require 'llm-ollama)
  (setopt ellama-provider
		    (make-llm-ollama
		     ;; this model should be pulled to use it
		     ;; value should be the same as you print in terminal during pull
		     :chat-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"
		     :embedding-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"))
  ;; Predefined llm providers for interactive switching.
  ;; You shouldn't add ollama providers here - it can be selected interactively
  ;; without it. It is just example.
  (setopt ellama-providers
		    '(("zephyr" . (make-llm-ollama
				   :chat-model "zephyr:7b-beta-q6_K"
				   :embedding-model "zephyr:7b-beta-q6_K"))
		      ("mistral" . (make-llm-ollama
				    :chat-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"
				    :embedding-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"))
		      ("mixtral" . (make-llm-ollama
				    :chat-model "mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q3_K_M-4k"
				    :embedding-model "mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q3_K_M-4k"))))
  ;; Naming new sessions with llm
  (setopt ellama-naming-provider
	    (make-llm-ollama
	     :chat-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"
	     :embedding-model "mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q6_K"))
  (setopt ellama-naming-scheme 'ellama-generate-name-by-llm)
  ;; Translation llm provider
  (setopt ellama-translation-provider (make-llm-ollama
					 :chat-model "sskostyaev/openchat:8k"
					 :embedding-model "nomic-embed-text")))

Commands

ellama-chat

Ask Ellama about something by entering a prompt in an interactive buffer and continue conversation. If called with universal argument (C-u) will start new session with llm model interactive selection.

ellama-ask-about

Ask Ellama about a selected region or the current buffer.

ellama-ask-selection

Send selected region or current buffer to ellama chat.

ellama-ask-line

Send current line to ellama chat.

ellama-complete

Complete text in current buffer with ellama.

ellama-translate

Ask Ellama to translate a selected region or word at the point.

ellama-translate-buffer

Translate current buffer.

ellama-define-word

Find the definition of the current word using Ellama.

ellama-summarize

Summarize a selected region or the current buffer using Ellama.

ellama-summarize-killring

Summarize text from the kill ring.

ellama-code-review

Review code in a selected region or the current buffer using Ellama.

ellama-change

Change text in a selected region or the current buffer according to a provided change.

ellama-make-list

Create a markdown list from the active region or the current buffer using Ellama.

ellama-make-table

Create a markdown table from the active region or the current buffer using Ellama.

ellama-summarize-webpage

Summarize a webpage fetched from a URL using Ellama.

ellama-provider-select

Select ellama provider.

ellama-code-complete

Complete selected code or code in the current buffer according to a provided change using Ellama.

ellama-code-add

Add new code according to a description, generating it with a provided context from the selected region or the current buffer using Ellama.

ellama-code-edit

Change selected code or code in the current buffer according to a provided change using Ellama.

ellama-code-improve

Change selected code or code in the current buffer according to a provided change using Ellama.

ellama-improve-wording

Enhance the wording in the currently selected region or buffer using Ellama.

ellama-improve-grammar

Enhance the grammar and spelling in the currently selected region or buffer using Ellama.

ellama-improve-conciseness

Make the text of the currently selected region or buffer concise and simple using Ellama.

ellama-make-format

Render the currently selected text or the text in the current buffer as a specified format using Ellama.

ellama-load-session

Load ellama session from file.

ellama-session-remove

Remove ellama session.

ellama-session-switch

Change current active session.

ellama-session-rename

Rename current ellama session.

ellama-context-add-file

Add file to context.

ellama-context-add-buffer

Add buffer to context.

ellama-context-add-selection

Add selected region to context.

ellama-context-add-info-node

Add info node to context.

ellama-chat-translation-enable

Chat translation enable.

ellama-chat-translation-disable

Chat translation disable.

Keymap

Here is a table of keybindings and their associated functions in Ellama, using the ellama-keymap-prefix prefix (not set by default):

Keymap	Function	Description
“c c”	ellama-code-complete	Code complete
“c a”	ellama-code-add	Code add
“c e”	ellama-code-edit	Code edit
“c i”	ellama-code-improve	Code improve
“c r”	ellama-code-review	Code review
”s s”	ellama-summarize	Summarize
”s w”	ellama-summarize-webpage	Summarize webpage
”s c”	ellama-summarize-killring	Summarize killring
”s l”	ellama-load-session	Session Load
”s r”	ellama-session-rename	Session rename
”s d”	ellama-session-remove	Session delete
”s a”	ellama-session-switch	Session activate
“i w”	ellama-improve-wording	Improve wording
“i g”	ellama-improve-grammar	Improve grammar and spelling
“i c”	ellama-improve-conciseness	Improve conciseness
“m l”	ellama-make-list	Make list
“m t”	ellama-make-table	Make table
“m f”	ellama-make-format	Make format
“a a”	ellama-ask-about	Ask about
“a i”	ellama-chat	Chat (ask interactively)
“a l”	ellama-ask-line	Ask current line
“a s”	ellama-ask-selection	Ask selection
“t t”	ellama-translate	Text translate
“t b”	ellama-translate-buffer	Translate buffer
“t e”	ellama-chat-translation-enable	Translation enable
“t d”	ellama-chat-translation-disable	Translation disable
“t c”	ellama-complete	Text complete
“d w”	ellama-define-word	Define word
“x b”	ellama-context-add-buffer	Context add buffer
“x f”	ellama-context-add-file	Context add file
“x s”	ellama-context-add-selection	Context add selection
“x i”	ellama-context-add-info-node	Context add info node
“p s”	ellama-provider-select	Provider select

Configuration

The following variables can be customized for the Ellama client:

ellama-enable-keymap: Enable the Ellama keymap.
ellama-keymap-prefix: The keymap prefix for Ellama.
ellama-user-nick: The user nick in logs.
ellama-assistant-nick: The assistant nick in logs.
ellama-language: The language for Ollama translation. Default

language is english.

ellama-provider: llm provider for ellama. Default provider is

ollama with zephyr model. There are many supported providers: ollama, open ai, vertex, GPT4All. For more information see llm documentation.

ellama-providers: association list of model llm providers with name as key.
ellama-spinner-type: Spinner type for ellama. Default type is

progress-bar.

ellama-ollama-binary: Path to ollama binary.
ellama-auto-scroll: If enabled ellama buffer will scroll automatically during generation. Disabled by default.
ellama-fill-paragraphs: Option to customize ellama paragraphs filling behaviour.
ellama-name-prompt-words-count: Count of words in prompt to generate name.
Prompt templates for every command.
ellama-chat-done-callback: Callback that will be called on ellama

chat response generation done. It should be a function with single argument generated text string.

ellama-nick-prefix-depth: User and assistant nick prefix depth. Default value is 2.
ellama-sessions-directory: Directory for saved ellama sessions.
ellama-major-mode: Major mode for ellama commands. Org mode by default.
ellama-long-lines-length: Long lines length for fill paragraph call. Too low value can break generated code by splitting long comment lines. Default value 100.
ellama-session-auto-save: Automatically save ellama sessions if set. Enabled by default.
ellama-naming-scheme: How to name new sessions.
ellama-naming-provider: LLM provider for generating session names by LLM. If not set ellama-provider will be used.
ellama-chat-translation-enabled: Enable chat translations if set.
ellama-translation-provider: LLM translation provider. ellama-provider will be used if not set.

Acknowledgments

Thanks Jeffrey Morgan for excellent project ollama. This project cannot exist without it.

Thanks zweifisch - I got some ideas from ollama.el what ollama client in Emacs can do.

Thanks Dr. David A. Kunz - I got more ideas from gen.nvim.

Thanks Andrew Hyatt for llm library. Without it only ollama would be supported.

Contributions

To contribute, submit a pull request or report a bug. This library is part of GNU ELPA; major contributions must be from someone with FSF papers. Alternatively, you can write a module and share it on a different archive like MELPA.

haplo/ellama