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I like the idea of in-IDE search to avoid context switch. However, I can only see the top-voted answer and can't even see what the question was. So I had to cli

I like the idea of in-IDE search to avoid context switch. However, I can only see the top-voted answer and can't even see what the question was. So I had to click on the link and open the browser anyways. Is it possible to add more context to completely avoid opening the browser? If so that would be a deal breaker for me compared to the VSCode/IntelliJ stackoverflow plugins (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Alexey-Strakh.stackoverflow-search https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Alexey-S..., https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9513-stackoverflow https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9513-stackoverflow) Also, can search on Github work without connecting accounts? By default Github allows you to search without logging in. So I was confused when I was asked to connect my Github account.

mlejva 6y ago
> See more of a question When you have selected a SO question, you can press enter or click on its title to display the full question with all the answers. Then you can press ESC to go back. Given you feedback, we didn't make that obvious enough. > Context Yes. We want to release a VSCode (and other IDEs+editors will follow) extension that will understand your current working context. The goal is to eliminate browser as much as possible. This way, for example, we would be able to extract errors from your terminal and offer you answers even before you start searching. > Unauthenticated search Unfortunately, GitHub let you do only 10 searches per minute as an unauthenticated user. We seemed to go over that limit fairly often from our internal testing. Once you authenticate yourself you get limit of 30 searches/minute. Eventually, we want to build our own index and use our API. Thank you for trying out the app!
- tracyhenry 6y ago
  Gotcha! That's really useful. But yeah, the default looks of the underlined title (plus the trailing "open in browser" icon) make it really look like clicking would open the browser so I didn't bother clicking on it. It'd be nice if that's more clear. > extract errors from your terminal That sounds useful but challenging. Looking forward to seeing that ITF. > github search Y understood now. Nice work!

mlejva 6y ago

> See more of a question When you have selected a SO question, you can press enter or click on its title to display the full question with all the answers. Then you can press ESC to go back. Given you feedback, we didn't make that obvious enough. > Context Yes. We want to release a VSCode (and other IDEs+editors will follow) extension that will understand your current working context. The goal is to eliminate browser as much as possible. This way, for example, we would be able to extract errors from your terminal and offer you answers even before you start searching. > Unauthenticated search Unfortunately, GitHub let you do only 10 searches per minute as an unauthenticated user. We seemed to go over that limit fairly often from our internal testing. Once you authenticate yourself you get limit of 30 searches/minute. Eventually, we want to build our own index and use our API. Thank you for trying out the app!

tracyhenry 6y ago
Gotcha! That's really useful. But yeah, the default looks of the underlined title (plus the trailing "open in browser" icon) make it really look like clicking would open the browser so I didn't bother clicking on it. It'd be nice if that's more clear. > extract errors from your terminal That sounds useful but challenging. Looking forward to seeing that ITF. > github search Y understood now. Nice work!