Installation

With Vim-plug add this to your .vimrc:

Plug 'vmchale/howdoi-vim' , {'do' : './install.sh' }

With Vundle simply add this to your .vimrc:

Plugin 'vmchale/howdoi-vim'

If you use vundle you'll have to install howdoi manually, e.g. with

pip install howdoi

The advantage of this plugin is that it does not require a vim compiled with +python, so you don't have to go outside your distro to get it. Of couse, you'll need to install howdoi as well. If you have pip, this is as simple as typing:

pip install howdoi

Usage

By default, howdoi-vim provides one command:

:Howdoi 'SEARCH TERMS'

Press q to exit when it displays the code content of your project.

You can also set g:howdoi_num to set the number of answers to return by default, and g:howdoi_options to access other options from the command line, e.g.

let g:howdoi_num=3