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Pieces For Sublime Text (on-device AI coding assistant that boosts developer productivity)

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The Pieces Team is super excited to announce a significant addition for our Pieces for Sublime Text.

What is Pieces?

Pieces is an innovative, free on-device AI coding assistant designed to supercharge your productivity. Imagine having a powerful AI copilot right at your fingertips, seamlessly integrating with your workflow. Whether you’re leveraging the capabilities of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and many others local or on-cloud LLM models, Pieces has got you covered

But that’s not all! Pieces also excels in snippet management, making it incredibly easy to organize, retrieve, and utilize code snippets. This means less time searching and more time coding. With Pieces, you can focus on what you do best—creating amazing software—while it takes care of the rest.

In essence, Pieces is your ultimate coding companion, combining advanced AI capabilities with practical tools to make your development process smoother, faster, and more enjoyable. Give it a try and experience the future of coding today!

Pieces Features

  1. :mag: Search
    • Quickly find your saved snippets and resources with on-device machine learning models.
  2. :outbox_tray: Share
    • Easily share code snippets and their context with teammates.
  3. :page_facing_up: Extract
    • Extract useful information from your code and resources.
  4. :star2: Enrich
    • Enhance your snippets with additional context and metadata.
  5. :gear: Generate
    • Automatically generate useful code snippets and documentation.
  6. :books: Reference
    • Keep track of important code snippets and resources for future reference.
  7. :robot: Ask Copilot
    • Get assistance with commenting, fixing bugs, or adding docstrings by selecting code snippets or entire repositories and choosing “Pieces > Ask Copilot.”
  8. :speech_balloon: Copilot conversation
    • Have a Copilot conversation with context-aware 100% for free.

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Some other useful links:

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#3

@bishoy-at-pieces I will also provide here my feedback similar to what I sent on Discord so other people can see it too.

  • #1 Sublime views can have their own settings. I suggest you auto enable word-wrap, remove the gutter and remove the minimap.
  • #2 Sublime supports multi-tab selection. While putting the conversation in a two-column layout is nice,
    some people have their own custom way (such as 2x2 layout). Putting the conversation in a normal tab
    will allow the user to decide how to handle it. It also provides better UX in my opinion (closing the conversation leaves an empty column).
  • #3 Exploit the View. While Sublime has rudimentary HTML support which is fine, many awesome plugins use the Buffer/View as the UI.
    I suggest you take a look at GitSavvy package. It represents its UI in the view itself and can be navigated
    via keyboard shortcuts. Think of ST as somehow similar to neovim.
  • #4 Additionally from above, Sublime-heavy users use keyboard shortcuts most of the time.
    Make sure that commands are discoverable in the command palette, especially the features you want to focus on
    such as the ones in the context menu items (“Save to Pieces”, “Start conver…”)
  • #5 Saving highlighted code snippets to Pieces should always use the snippets current syntax.
    I have tried saving something basic like console.log in a typescript file and it either detects it as a “note” or coffeescript
  • #6 What does export material do? I tried clicking save and nothing seem to happen.
  • #7 I like the idea that you can import your sublime snippets but I am pretty sure no one will manually pick their snippets.
    I do not have custom snippets but Sublime already has hundreds of snippets already from default packages. I suggest that the
    command should import all snippets (tag it with “Sublime Text”) and should just import all existing and future new snippets.
    This will allow the user to utilize the natural language auto completion which is definitely a plus!
  • #8 Putting multiple input handlers for search feels unnatural. Try doing the similar thing with “Goto Anything (ctrl+p)” shortcuts.
    You can use “neural search” as default and enable “full-text” when the user query starts with “@”.
    Think of your search feature as Sublime’s “Goto Anything”. The input-to-feedback ratio should be balanced enough for the user to really use it.
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#5

Appreciate your feedback, Thank you.
The team will be work on this stuff

For #6 export material converts a Pieces Material to sublime snippet
You can change the tab-trigger of the snippet the description or the scope

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#6

Yeah, I got to that part but how would I edit/change things? I tried clicking around but nothing seems to work.

Here’s the log in case you need it.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 1647, in run_
    return self.run(**args)
  File "C:\Users\lupi\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Pieces.sublime-package\assets/export_command.py", line 146, in run
  File "C:\Users\lupi\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Pieces.sublime-package\assets/export_command.py", line 104, in get_instance
  File "C:\Users\lupi\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Pieces.sublime-package\assets/export_command.py", line 104, in <listcomp>
  File "C:\Users\lupi\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Pieces.sublime-package\assets/export_command.py", line 100, in __str__
AttributeError: 'PiecesExportAssetToSublimeCommand' object has no attribute 'sheet'
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#7

seems a bug gonna fix it next release

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#8

A new patch release is out 1.3.4:

  • Fix the export command
  • Fix some Copilot issues (First role in the prompt can be deleted and it is included in the copilot prompt that is sent)
  • Fix “Start a new conversation about the current section” in the context menu
  • Fix inconsistent naming in the command palette
  • Fix can’t connect to the WebSocket bad family: connect() on some devices
  • Fix the ask command (code comments, ask for bug fix, modifying code) always does not have context

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#9

Hello Pieces for Sublime users!

We’re excited to announce the release of Pieces for Sublime version 1.4.0! This update brings numerous improvements, new features, and bug fixes to enhance your coding experience.

Key highlights of this release include:

  1. Fuzzy search functionality for easier snippet discovery
  2. Improved Copilot integration with multi-selection support for better user experience
  3. New “Snippets All” feature for better snippets to import to Pieces
  4. Enhanced user experience with the addition of a progress bar in the Copilot
  5. Improved shareable links functionality with error handling

Other notable improvements:

  • Resolved conflicts in key bindings
  • Changed startup logic for better performance
  • Fixed various bugs, including issues with copilot relevance and selection
  • Improved Snippets handling

We strongly recommend all users to update to this latest version to benefit from these enhancements. You can update Pieces for Sublime through Package Control in Sublime Text.

We value your input! Please try out the new version and let us know your thoughts. For a complete list of changes and improvements, please visit our GitHub release page: https://github.com/pieces-app/plugin_sublime/releases



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#10

Hello,
I started using the plugin and it seems great. I just found one issue. After enabling the plugin, the keyboard shortcut for Find and Replace is gone and replaced with the command prompt for a query.

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#11

Thank you for pointing that out @salCL I tagged a new release removing that keybinding that conflict keybinding, and it should be updated on the package control shortly.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

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#12

Seems interesting. Haven’t tried yet. Does Pieces support multiple file generation / editing the same way Cursor does? Also, is the focus on snippets or on being/becoming the goto AI tool for ST?

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#13

Hey @mikko Pieces is used as a long term memory, It has many features that is not introduced to sublime yet like live context. which on the our desktop app.
The focus is on both code snippets and becoming a go-to AI tool for software development. It aims to streamline your coding process while offering robust features. If you have any specific features in mind, I’d love to discuss them!

Also we offer wide of llm support where you can chat with these models for free

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#14

what do you exactly mean about “Does Pieces support multiple file generation/editing the way Cursor does?” can you elaborate more?

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#15

Referring to the composer feature. You can ask it to break things into components or to implement something with multiple files. Think Copilot got that as well in the latest release. Also like the ability of being able to to include specific files and documents (urls) as context.

Personally not that much need for snippets, but would love a focused AI tool for ST. Even better if open source.

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#16

All of these features are here as well

There is an explain command where you can ask the copilot to explain certain parts
also you can include a file as a context, It will be great feature to add if you really want to add urls as a context let me know if you have any suggestions

Feel free to check our new docs for more detailed examples and please we really need your feedback you are totally welcomed to talk in this thread on GitHub

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#17

Hello Everyone,
Would be great to have your feedback on the plugin and share your most favorite feature.

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