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Search StackOverflow and paste code snippets without leaving Sublime Text 2

41 points by tartle 13y ago

thenerdfiles 13y ago
Odd. Upon reading the title I immediately thought: I'll respond first! with howdoi There's also https://github.com/jpelton/vim/blob/master/plugin/HowDoI.vim https://github.com/jpelton/vim/blob/master/plugin/HowDoI.vim.
- tartle 13y ago
  that actually is howdoi, just wrapped, so that you don't need to leave the edited file in Sublime Text :)
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  - thenerdfiles 13y ago
    Definitely. Less good than what you've created here. Thank you!
thewarrior 13y ago
This should be what the future of programming looks like. The programmer only provides a high level overview and the rest of the architecture and API details should be automatically filled in. :P
lipeno 13y ago
Make this as a jetbrains plugin also :)
lowmagnet 13y ago
This is really cool. But why type 'in php' if you're editing a .php file? I'd think Sublime could fill that bit in for you.
- tartle 13y ago
  good point, thanks - will change that
rafeed 13y ago
Seems pretty cool! Would this work with Sublime Text 3 too?
- orcinus 13y ago
  Tried it, doesn't work. No idea why, did some very limited poking around, couldn't see anything obviously out of order.
  - tartle 13y ago
    ST3 compatibility problem is hopefully solved now, by one of user contribs
jamwaffles 13y ago
This is all well and good for seasoned programmers who know what the snippet that has just been inserted does, but this is going to reduce code quality (lots of copypasta) and I have huge issue with the fact that StackOverflow answers often provide an explanation of the code, which this plugin obviously strips away. Perhaps come up with a way to add the explanation from SO as a comment to the inserted code snippet?
orcinus 13y ago
In case someone gets stuck getting howdoi to work on Mavericks, export the libxml2 path before pip install howdoi: export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.1/include/libxml2:$C_INCLUDE_PATH
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hardikj 13y ago
This is really cool!! Add this to package control :)
kazuki 13y ago
It's really cool. I developed intellij plugin inspried by this https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste

41 points by tartle 13y ago

Odd. Upon reading the title I immediately thought: I'll respond first! with howdoi There's also https://github.com/jpelton/vim/blob/master/plugin/HowDoI.vim https://github.com/jpelton/vim/blob/master/plugin/HowDoI.vim.

tartle 13y ago
that actually is howdoi, just wrapped, so that you don't need to leave the edited file in Sublime Text :)
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- thenerdfiles 13y ago
  Definitely. Less good than what you've created here. Thank you!

thewarrior 13y ago

This should be what the future of programming looks like. The programmer only provides a high level overview and the rest of the architecture and API details should be automatically filled in. :P

lipeno 13y ago

Make this as a jetbrains plugin also :)

lowmagnet 13y ago

This is really cool. But why type 'in php' if you're editing a .php file? I'd think Sublime could fill that bit in for you.

tartle 13y ago
good point, thanks - will change that

rafeed 13y ago

Seems pretty cool! Would this work with Sublime Text 3 too?

orcinus 13y ago
Tried it, doesn't work. No idea why, did some very limited poking around, couldn't see anything obviously out of order.
- tartle 13y ago
  ST3 compatibility problem is hopefully solved now, by one of user contribs

jamwaffles 13y ago

This is all well and good for seasoned programmers who know what the snippet that has just been inserted does, but this is going to reduce code quality (lots of copypasta) and I have huge issue with the fact that StackOverflow answers often provide an explanation of the code, which this plugin obviously strips away. Perhaps come up with a way to add the explanation from SO as a comment to the inserted code snippet?

orcinus 13y ago

In case someone gets stuck getting howdoi to work on Mavericks, export the libxml2 path before pip install howdoi: export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.1/include/libxml2:$C_INCLUDE_PATH

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hardikj 13y ago

This is really cool!! Add this to package control :)

kazuki 13y ago

It's really cool. I developed intellij plugin inspried by this https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste