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[Andrey Tykhonov]

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2013/12/27 Andrey Tykhonov <atykhonov@gmail.com>

> Hi York Zhao!
>
> Thanks for such detailed description of the issues which you've
> experienced during `howdoi` installation. Thank you that you've posted this
> here!
>
> Your letter for me is the strong reason why python' `howdoi` needs to be
> excluded from `emacs-howdoi` dependencies.
>
> And I'm currently working on this. So `emacs-howdoi` will be working
> without `python-howdoi` and thus `python-howdoi` will be not required to be
> installed any more. I have already implemented some prototype and I'm going
> to finish it during next several days... May be even today I'll provide
> some basic version, will see... Please wait.
>
> P.S. Well, I were using linux and I've installed `howdoi` from the system
> repository. And it works just good for me without any issues. I took a look
> at the source of `python-howdoi` and the message "Sorry, couldn't find
> any help with that topic" doesn't bring me any idea why it behaves so. (May
> be in spare time I'll try to reproduce and investigate it on windows). By
> the way if you still want to install `python-howdoi` you could try via
> `python setup.py install` as you did. Just before it install setuptools:
> download https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py and
> execute by means of python. However I'm not sure that that will be helpful.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Andrey
>
>
> 2013/12/27 York Zhao <gtdplatform@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Andrey Tykhonov,
>>
>> Thank for introducing the "howdoi", sounds cool so I decided to give it a
>> shot.
>>
>> I forked the "howdoi" repository first and followed the installation
>> instruction, in bash from msysGit I typed:
>>
>> $ python setup.py install
>>
>> And I got the following error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
>>     from setuptools import setup, find_packages
>> ImportError: No module named setuptools
>>
>> So I downloaded "A standalone Windows executable with the howdoi
>> application"
>> from their link at github, I tried all their examples, but always got the
>> response "Sorry, couldn't find any help with that topic". For example, I
>> typed:
>>
>> $ howdoi -a format date bash
>>
>> And I got:
>>
>> Sorry, couldn't find any help with that topic
>>
>> I'm sorry I should have posted this to "howdoi" but I just thought you
>> were
>> using Windows as well and so I just wanted to see if you have a quick
>> answer to
>> my problem.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> York
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Andrey Tykhonov <atykhonov@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Tom,
>> >
>> > I was glad to find your letter in the inbox about idea to write a port
>> for
>> > sublime-howdoi-direct-paste. I was looking for some small Emacs project
>> to
>> > implement. And I decided to implement howdoi for emacs.
>> >
>> > Check out the emacs-howdoi: https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi
>> >
>> > I wrote it last night. This is my first Emacs package and I'm relatively
>> > new in Emacs/elisp... Therefore any comments due to code (and
>> functionality
>> > overall), suggestions, ideas about new features etc etc etc will be
>> highly
>> > appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> >
>> > Andrey T.
>> >
>> >> Check out the animgif demonstration here:
>> >
>> >> https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste[1]
>> >
>> >> It can be a good little Emacs project for the holidays if someone
>> >> wants to do a port.
>> >
>> >
>> >> (And I know: you shouldn't copy code blindly from the internet. It's
>> >> only a convenience tool for quickly fethcing trivial code and
>> >> modifying it for your own purposes. People who copy code blindly can
>> >> also do it manually after all.)
>>
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