G on hexdocs
TIL from Wojtek's Rapid Prototyping in Elixir talk that pressing g on hexdocs enables searching packages
he also said:
you kinda have to know what you're looking for, that is going to change perhaps, stay tunedI think he is hinting on some AI suggestion feature. 😄 anyway, the g makes it a bit shorter than opening a new tab; but also everything else Wojtek said is gold info. g might be the least interesting one, it's just something I didn't know, but the whole talk is G for Great. Seems like a great talk for introducing someone to elixir also 👏 this also reminded me to try local hexdocs again 🤔
ElixirConf
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Rapid Prototyping in Elixir
ElixirConf US 2024 - Wojtek Mach
https://2024.elixirconf.com/#speakers-presenter-wojtek-mach
Elixir is a dynamic programming language with metaprogramming, hot-code reloading, and full stack Web framework in Phoenix. Thanks to the Hex package manager and Mix.install, it’s never been easier to experiment with libraries. These particular ingr...
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You can also press
? and that brings up a help modal with a keyboard shortcuts tab🤯
i'm still using my own tool https://hexdocs.krister.ee/, because it searches across packages. it's a quick pre-AI tool, so nothing fancy. there should be an official cross-package search app coming at one point.
yea I remember that from forum🤠
I feel like we've been hearing about this cross-package search for a long time now
you mean the official one or mine? i mean yeah, both i imagine 😄
you don't have to press enter, search is automatic. when you press enterr it's going to assume your first keyword is a package and then the rest is the search. then it directs you to the hexdocs official search engine.