I'm lazy and a newb, can I have a copy-and-paste instruction to install a package? about package.elm-lang.org HOT 13 CLOSED

At the risk of adding a 'Me Too' reply here - I just noticed this - it seems conspicuous by it's absence. NPM, Nuget, Docker, etc all have this snippet, it's kinda expected now. There is a little bit of a risk that a user will currently reach an Elm package page and end up thinking "That's nice.... now what?"

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Is anyone working on this? I could try to prepare a PR.

IMO there doesn't even have to be a copy-to-clipboard button, all I would care about is having the full package name in a valid format (author + name, without spaces around the slash, etc)

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So I started implementing this, as I also found it lacking.
It currently looks like this:

There is a small hack there because I don't think this is currently possible in elm-html.
I used:

attribute "onClick" "this.select()"

Is this hack acceptable?
Would be cool if I could do this in elm-html with something like

selected model.selected

instead.

If you're ok with the design and if this hack is acceptable, I'm gonna send a pull request.
Let me know.

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I think it's elm package install elm-lang/core as of 0.15. Where would you expect this information to be? That is, where is it missing?

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Ah, sorry, should've been more descriptive. It would be useful on each package's page. For instance, on elm-lang/core's page, there would be a code block for easy copy & paste to a user's shell to install the package, like Rubygems has (see the sidebar).

It had taken me a bit to realize what the exact command I was supposed to use to install packages is.

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That's a good idea. Like most version control hosting websites have a clone box. Sounds like a simple addition to the page. Maybe something you can try to add yourself and submit as a PR? It's a nice small thing to start contributing with :)

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IMO, NPM's solution is simple and effective:

E.g just like @Zinggi 's solution though no need for auto copy functionality, plus a simple link to show beginners how to use elm package

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@megapctr it doesn't seem like anyone is working on this, no. And the header is very hard to copy, since trying to select the words just grabs the link instead, and it's very easy to select the version.

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@drathier there's a MR fixing the header, but for some reason it seems it's being ignored? #209

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@megapctr ah. I would still like a copy/pastable command in a textbox, like git clone here on github. It's not that simple to figure out you can copy/paste the text in the header, and it does take a few extra seconds each time.

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Just looked over a colleagues shoulder last friday, he just recently started to explore elm. And exactly this was what he was looking for, so I had to say, you can copy the header.

He then pasted into iTerm2 and it got separated over three lines :/

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Each package now has an "About" page that includes the install command for last elm version.

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Thank you to @rlefevre for thinking of having an About page to show this information in a nice way!

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