Homepage: https://github.com/thanhvg/howdoyou
Author: Thanh Vuong
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A stackoverflow and its sisters' sites reader
This package is inspired by python howdoi (https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi) and howdoi Emacs package (https://github.com/lockie/emacs-howdoi and https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi). it searches your query all across stackoverflow and its sisters' sites. They are: stackoverflow.com, stackexchange.com, superuser.com, serverfault.com and askubuntu.com. The result is then showed in an `org-mode' buffer. For each result, the question and three answers were showed, but they are collapsed by default except the first answer. As this package uses Google to get the links, for each query there will be a dozen of links, the fist link will be used, users can go through these links. The author believes that when searching for solutions it is important for users to read both questions and answers, so no "quick look" features such as code only view or code completion are provided. Dependencies `promise' and `request' are required. user must have `org-mode' 9.2 or later installed also. Commands howdoyou-query: prompt for query and do search howdoyou-next-link: go to next link howdoyou-previous-link: go to previous link howdoyou-go-back-to-first-link: go back to first link howdoyou-reload-link: reload link Customization howdoyou-use-curl: default is true if curl is available howdoyou-number-of-answers: maximal number of answers to show, default is 3 howdoyou-switch-to-answer-buffer: switch to answer buffer if non nil, default is nil Changelog 2021-09-09: - back to use curl if possible 2021-09-02: - use url-retrieve as default instead of request 2021-07-06: - adapt to new SO change: trim score text 2020-10-02: - update with change from google - impove test - bump version 2020-08-27: - bump version - adapt to recent change by SO: css class from "post-text" to "s-prose" 2020-08-28: - adapt to recent change by SO: css class from "post-text" to "s-prose"