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instant coding answers via the command line

23 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 2 stories, 21 comments · first 2013-01-08 · latest 2022-03-18

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  1. howdoi works great: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi Most frequently, it looks up the first stackoverflow answer and prints it.
    comment by david_draco · 2022-03-18 · in Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands
  2. There's already a popular `howdoi` that me and a buddy made: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by Mizza · 2020-05-19 · in Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal
  3. There's another 'howdoi' already, FYI: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by jfim · 2020-05-19 · in Show HN: Get help on any Linux command by typing 'howdoi –' in your terminal
  4. * howdoi: stackoverflow from the shell: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi , don't leave you terminal while programming
    comment by haensi · 2018-11-20 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  5. …tool itself was NOT built by me, but by Benjamin Gleitzman and other open source contributors: [ https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi](https://github.com/gleitz/... I hope for anyone who prefers GUIs over command line that this tool can…
    comment by fullstackchris · 2018-07-27 · in Show HN: Howdoi Web GUI
  6. …terminal output without using a mouse) howdoi: Search stachoverflow/stackexchange from the CLI - https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/ nmtui: WIFI/Networking from the terminal - https://github.com/heftig/NetworkManager bluetoothctl: Bluetooth…
    comment by O_H_E · 2018-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  7. What you're describing is not unlike howdoi: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by ksenzee · 2018-01-19 · in Programming Notes for Professionals books
  8. Somewhat related https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi with the vim frontend https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi
    comment by hiou · 2016-11-03 · in StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules
  9. Or the more mature 'howdoi' - https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by Mizza · 2016-02-22 · in Show HN: how2 – stackoverflow.com from the terminal
  10. …$ howdoi turn dictionary into json python >>> json.dumps(your_data, ensure_ascii=False) [0] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by jfim · 2015-09-15 · in Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
  11. …He recommends the following Python projects for reading: * Howdoi ( https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi ) * Flask ( https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask ) * Werkzeug ( https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug ) * Requests ( https://gi
    comment by aaronjgreenberg · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
  12. …also worth mentioning the commandline tool that I assume this (howdoi-direct-paste) is based on: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027021
    comment by k1t · 2014-11-05 · in C# Autocomplete Demo Using Bing Code Search Engine
  13. …that don't know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they'll find out about howdoi now: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi pip install howdoi vim plugin: https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi one of the emacs plugins:…
    comment by rjzzleep · 2014-06-23 · in Ask Stack Overflow for Atom
  14. Crazier alternative: 1) Install howdoi https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi 2) Write commands like the following (all work as expected): howdoi get time in bash | sh howdoi clear bash | sh howdoi find current user bash | sh howdoi restart…
    comment by FriedPickles · 2014-05-05 · in Betty – English-like interface for the command line
  15. …sure if there are any other plugins, but that should cover a decent portion of interest here. [1] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi [2] https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi [3] https://github.com/arthurnn/howdoi-emacs EDIT: sublime…
    comment by rjzzleep · 2014-02-17 · in Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
  16. That sounds a lot like https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by jc4p · 2014-02-17 · in Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
  17. That's howdoi. https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by akx · 2014-01-25 · in Bro pages: like man pages, but with examples only
  18. Have you tried howdoi? Command line, but nice. https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
    comment by udfalkso · 2013-01-31
  19. Nice suggestions! We've got a whole list going on at https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/issues
    comment by gleitz · 2013-01-09 · in Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line
  20. …-p3 Excellent idea for colorization! I've already got that suggestion on the github page -> https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/issues/4
    comment by gleitz · 2013-01-08 · in Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line
  21. According to the source code ( https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/blob/master/howdoi/howdoi.p... ), the answers come from Stack Overflow, searched using Google site search. Howdoi scrapes and prints the first code block in the top answer, or…
    comment by roryokane · 2013-01-08 · in Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line