stackovimflow

stackovimflow

Search StackOverflow and view answers (minus comments) in Vim. Using Google CustomSearch apis. So I don't have to leave the terminal and keyboard to copy & paste from StackOverflow. 🙊

Installation

go install github.com/JackKCWong/stackovimflow@latest
stackovimflow install-vim

Configuration

You need a Google CustomSearch API key to use this plugin. You can get one from Google CustomSearch.

Set the following environment variables to configure the plugin.

export GCS_API_KEY=your-api-key
export GCS_CX=your-cse-id

# optional proxy setup
export GCS_HTTP_PROXY=your-proxy
export GCS_HTTPS_PROXY=your-proxy

Usage

# put this in your .bash_profile or equivalent

function sos() {
    stackovimflow search $@ | vim -
}

sos your question as if you are searching on StackOverflow

It first load the top 5 results in a vim buffer with filetype soi. When you press , it will open the selected answer in a new buffer with filetype somd.

In a somd, you can press to copy the code block to system clipboard when you are inside a "```" code block.