Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by kgwgk » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
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Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by cristea » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:40 PM UTC

Pretty cool! I love that these battle proven editors (emacs and (n)vim) seem to follow along with new technology, even though one might think overwise given their age.

I hope this comes to vim as well!

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by brotherjerky » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:41 PM UTC

Anyone have good results with something similar for Neovim?

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by rurban » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:43 PM UTC

Looks better than my current Claude Sonnet integration via copilot.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by pjm331 » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:45 PM UTC

love the ability to add tools to the mcp server - would expect nothing less from emacs :)

as a long time emacs user i've only recently started really writing my own elisp tools, but claude is pretty good at writing elisp so i've been doing more there (sometimes it loses track of parentheses and you need to fix that, but overall pretty good)

I'll def be trying this out alongside steve yegge's efrit which kicks the emacs up to 11 by letting the agent just write and evaluate arbitrary elisp expressions https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by greymalik » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

brotherjerky wrote: post #3

Anyone have good results with something similar for Neovim?

https://github.com/greggh/claude-code.nvim https://github.com/coder/claudecode.nvim

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by softwaredoug » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 1:57 PM UTC

brotherjerky wrote: post #3

Anyone have good results with something similar for Neovim?

I just like having a neovim terminal open with claude code open

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by vemv » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC

I'm happily using https://github.com/stevemolitor/claude-code.el which is a mere terminal wrapper (including a nifty Transient menu). But just by virtue of running inside Emacs you get a lot of power - it didn't take me a lot of effort to create an efficient, customized workflow that felt much more streamlined than my older iTerm usage.

I'll keep an eye on this new offering though.

There's also https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca-emacs which comes from the author of clojure-lsp, a very popular package within the Clojure community. I'd also been wanting to try it.

For both of the more advanced offerings, I tend to be a little cautious when adopting tools I'm trusting my productivity to. Most ambitious projects need to iron out misc stuff during their 'big bang' phase.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by blahgeek » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:01 PM UTC

Like LSP and tree-sitter, I think AI coding tools like Claude Code or Aider are very good news for niche editors like Emacs or Vim. Instead of struggling about implementing advanced IDE-like features, they can integrate with these tools relatively easily, and focus on other editing related features that set them apart. In fact, IMO it makes these editors more competitive because they are highly customizable and easier to integrate with these tools.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by neutronicus » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 2:04 PM UTC

I've tried out a similar project (claude-code.el).

I use Spacemacs in evil-mode and I found it very frustrating to try and type into the Claude Code text box (often my cursor would be somewhere weird, the terminal emulator just really did not seem to "understand" that I was not in Insert Mode). I wound up deciding that I'd rather just use Claude Code in the terminal. The Claude Code text box is ALSO annoying there, so I often just write out instructions in some file (in emacs) and tell then tell CC to read it.

Does this project have any facilities for authoring prompts in a temporary buffer or something?