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The unofficial Google shell

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Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by [deleted] »

mquander wrote: post #25
zheng wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this is pretty cool. There is also no way I would have ever thought "Hey, I wonder if there is a shell-esque interface to google? Oh, I bet HN will have a link about it! Let me go search!"…

Apparently you like re-flamewars, too. Can't we leave this kind of stuff for meta posts?

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Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by growt »

Hi, I made this some years ago. In fact it was the reason to sign up as a hacker news user :)

I didn't had the time to update it, so some things are broken (login, auto complete). And the open source project never caught traction.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by MikeCampo »

apgwoz wrote: post #22
zheng wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's how I see reposts. I agree that people shouldn't just repost things because they were popular at one point, and they want the karma. However, realize that for people who weren't around when that was posted (over a year ago), this is pretty cool. There is also no way I would have ever thought "Hey, I wonder if there is a shell-esque interface to google? Oh, I bet HN will have a link about it! Let me go search!"…

I disagree. I want to see new stuff. There's plenty of worthy stuff that in /new that does't see the homepage because shit like this reappears every 6 months/1 year/whatever. edit: emphasized what kind of stuff in /new

Well new stuff to you might be old stuff to me. Unless you've looked at every single submission on this site, no need to complain. Just don't open the link or comments.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by cygwin98 »

eneveu wrote: post #26

That's cool, but I like the Google Command Line interface even more: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ I was blown away the first time I edited Google doc using vim, hit ":wq" (save), and saw my changes reflected instantly in my browser, where I had opened the same document. The Oauth authentication was also pretty cool. Instead of asking for your Google credentials every time / saving them on your machine, the firs…

I played with googlecl for a bit and quite amazed by what it can do. However, in order to use vim as the editor, the user has to always append '--editor vim' to the command line, which feels a little awkward to me. I want more than that, say, it would be great that those google docs are actually files!

A quick google search turns out there exists always a project doing that --- http://gdatafs.sourceforge.net/

"Gdatafs is a FUSE implemtation that mount picassa web and youtube to your filesystem. An experimental implmentation of google docs is also avaiable in trunk. "

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by warmfuzzykitten »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #18
pfarrell wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to "guess" that. I'd like it really spelled out. I tried "login" and got a 500 from a debian server. I wouldn't send my credentials through some random server just because it was on HN. --edit: I was wrong, it wasn't a 500 error, it was a 404. I don't want to cast too much suspicion here, just making a point about being appropriately paranoid about giving out my creds. This site could be totally cool, I…

I'm assuming it's trying to load an OAuth screen - but the page is broken so won't even work to begin with.

login => 404 The requested URL /_ah/conflogin was not found on this server

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by chc »

ilazarte wrote: post #33

If it's unofficial its 'An' instead of 'The'

Not if there's only one unofficial entry in this field. "The" entails that the following noun phrase uniquely identifies something, not that it's been endorsed by some entity.

Re: The unofficial Google shell

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Post by eneveu »

cygwin98 wrote: post #35
eneveu wrote: post #26

That's cool, but I like the Google Command Line interface even more: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ I was blown away the first time I edited Google doc using vim, hit ":wq" (save), and saw my changes reflected instantly in my browser, where I had opened the same document. The Oauth authentication was also pretty cool. Instead of asking for your Google credentials every time / saving them on your machine, the firs…

I played with googlecl for a bit and quite amazed by what it can do. However, in order to use vim as the editor, the user has to always append '--editor vim' to the command line, which feels a little awkward to me. I want more than that, say, it would be great that those google docs are actually files! A quick google search turns out there exists always a project doing that --- http://gdatafs.sourceforge.net/ "Gdataf…

I think you can specify a default editor in the googlecl config file: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/wiki/ConfigurationOptions

You can also specify document-type specific editors ;)

The beauty of googlecl is that, since it's a command line tool, you could always fall back on using a bash alias / bash function, if all else fails.

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