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It's also much nicer looking and more interactive, FWIW...I also agree with its defaults. ``` $ howdoi inverse grep a file ``` Simply pops this up: ``` $ grep -L "foo" * ```…

The difference is that it's verbosity and pretty-print is the default for how2, and I think that's the more sensible choice, because it saves me the trouble of having to remember…

Saw this earlier this morning but just had to use it and boom! It worked perfectly. I really like the idea of using things on the console and the user interface is nice and…

Yes, though easily fixed: ``` alias howdoi="howdoi -a -c " ``` The other improvements from how2 being a curses app are helpful though.

loving this! helps me stay in the terminal

Nice! Installed it and will now make it part of all the computers I use. I found this funny: > It uses Google and Stackoverflow APIs, because Stackoverflow search on its own…

Nice! Installed it and will now make it part of all the computers I use. I found this funny: > It uses Google and Stackoverflow APIs, because Stackoverflow search on its own…

Google ignores special characters though - that makes it really hard to search for some things.

My first reaction ("Wowza!") was tempered by the fear that this sort of intervening layer may erode participation (and thus quality) of Stack Overflow. I suppose such a thing…

Over the long run, if I'm living in the terminal rather than the browser, I probably will be better off learning to be effective finding help via `man` pages rather than taking…

At first, I thought 'why2'?! But then I saw the video, the way you can specify a language, and the nice format that results are displayed in, along with the option to see more…

Awesome! It would be great if I could use it to query any stackexchange site, like TeX, for instance. Like `how2 prevent table from floating -s tex` would search on tex.se

Very nice. I much prefer this to howdoi. A couple suggestions: Does the `-l lang` flag correspond to stackoverflow tags which aren't necessarily limited to languages? This should…

Very nice. I much prefer this to howdoi. A couple suggestions: Does the `-l lang` flag correspond to stackoverflow tags which aren't necessarily limited to languages? This should…

I'm not currently using tags, thank you for the suggestion. Not sure is available in the SO api, I'll check. The keyboard shortcut is not hard to add. You could do it yourself :P

How does it perform the natural language processing in the search? Or does it rely on stackoverflow for that?

This is awesome! I have one burning question though: what is the proper -l lang parameter to use for Windows consoles? I tried: how2 -l windows enable tab completion and got…

"how2 -l cmd change directory" works for me. "how2 -l cmd enable tab completion" still returns nothing, though; I think that's just a query it can't answer. (A quick manual…

Or the more mature 'howdoi' - https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

howdoi beahaves in a very different way. It doesn't give you unix.stackexchange.com answers by default: $ howdoi unzip bz2 readcsvbz2file <- read.csv(bzfile("file.csv.bz2")) how2…

Another alternative that just searches google (or bing if you want to go crazy) and extracts commands from the search hits: https://github.com/jimmyppi/searchcmd ``` $ searchcmd…

This already exists: https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

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