codespaces.el

This package provides support for connecting to GitHub Codespaces in Emacs via TRAMP. It provides a handy completing-read UI that lets you choose from all your created codespaces. Here's a screenshot (running with vertico):

Here is an example use-package declaration:

(use-package codespaces
  :config (codespaces-setup)
  :bind ("C-c S" . #'codespaces-connect))

You will need to have the GitHub command line tools (gh) installed. If you use use-package-ensure-system-package, Emacs can install them for you automatically:

(use-package use-package-ensure-system-package :ensure t)
(use-package codespaces
  :ensure-system-package gh
  :config (codespaces-setup))

User-facing commands

• codespaces-connect brings up a list of codespaces, and upon selection opens a Dired buffer in /workspaces (the default Codespaces location).
• codespaces-start/codespaces-stop bring up a list of applicable codespaces and upon selection spawns a task that starts or stops the selected codespace.

Missing features

• Should ensure that gh codespace list works okay.
• Completion should sort codespaces by most-recently-used.
• Should have an unobtrusive special-mode buffer for outputs.

Credits

Thanks to Bas Alberts for writing the code to register ghcs as a valid TRAMP connection method.

License