Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of Cursor for Vim?

3 points by cft ↗ HN
Cursor now offers access to Sonnet, gemini, GPT, Deepseek for $20/mo. Is there a similar budle plugin for vim?

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I doubt there is a service that bundles a bunch of API access for one subscription fee and works with vim. But there are a few plugins that provide cursor like functionality and let you bring your own API key. Avante and code-companion are the most widely used ones. Magenta.nvim looks promising.
A similar question, is there something cli-composable? Something like:

  $ codellm -root /path/to/root -prompt - -connect $addr
  <input>^D
  <output>
Then it would be trivial to adapt to anything, e.g. as :'<,'>!codellm<CR>

Man all these wrappers and proxies that do the same thing again and again only to bury the essence.

I usually hear Avante mentioned in these discussions, which someone has already mentioned.

Back when I wrote https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu LazyVim seemed to provide the simplest out of the box experience for getting Copilot up, but I'm not sure if it has continued going down that path.. It's been a minute since I've used it in anger. Maybe Lazy has already added Avante and I'm just not aware of it?