Re: Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

Thanks for pointing this out. I will rectify.

On May 7, 4:07 pm, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:45:18PM EDT, Daniel Choi wrote:
> > I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog`.
>
> > goog is a command line tool that lets you perform Google searches from
> > the command line. Along with your query, you can specify the number of
> > pages of results you want and the time range you are interested in.
> > You can output the result in simple, colored plain text in the shell,
> > or you can browse the results in Vim, where you are supplied with Vim
> > key bindings to quickly open any URL in the results in a web browser.
>
> > goog can also install itself as a Vim plugin, giving you the power
> > to :Goog Google inside Vim.
>
> > Link to github project and installation instructions:
> >https://github.com/danchoi/goog
>
> I noticed the following:
>
> 1. no man page (something cmdline folks expect) or even a --help flag to
>    provide basic usage info about the program. The help2man tool might
>    help.
>
> 2. Maybe dependencies should be clearly stated in the install guide..
>    README.. web page:
>
>    . nokogiri
>    . tidy
>    . Ruby 1.9
>
> I was unable to test further since debian stable does not provide Ruby
> 1.9 by default and even after installling it, I would have had to make
> manual symlink adjustments.
>
> Lastly, to cover google's search engine capabilities, perhaps a language
> flag (any, english, german.. etc.) might be of interest to some users..?
>
> HTH
>
> CJ
>
> --
> Hi! My name is bobby...

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