Search StackOverflow and paste code snippets without leaving Sublime Text 2

https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste

by tartle • 13 years ago

41 14 13 years 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.

tartle3• 13 years ago

that actually is howdoi, just wrapped, so that you don't need to leave the edited file in Sublime Text :)

thenerdfiles2• 13 years ago

Definitely. Less good than what you've created here.

Thank you!

thewarrior• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

Make this as a jetbrains plugin also :)

lowmagnet• 13 years 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.

tartle3• 13 years ago

good point, thanks - will change that

rafeed• 13 years ago

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

orcinus2• 13 years ago

Tried it, doesn't work. No idea why, did some very limited poking around, couldn't see anything obviously out of order.

tartle3• 13 years ago

ST3 compatibility problem is hopefully solved now, by one of user contribs

jamwaffles• 13 years 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?

orcinus2• 13 years 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

hardikj• 13 years ago

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

kazuki• 13 years ago

It's really cool. I developed intellij plugin inspried by this

https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste

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