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@gautamkrishnar Makes sense to me. But, we should not give up the command line flag scheme. The rtv client is basically a terminal browser, but I think a programmable command line interface, especially for querying for questions and posting questions, would be useful for SO.

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@gautamkrishnar That would be a good idea...

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@gautamkrishnar Have you had time to work on this? If not, I am freed up to start implementing this feature.

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I'd be interested in implementing this, although of course this a substantial amount of work that could be done multiple people. A good model CLI is rtv, the reddit cli.
The first place to start is in displaying questions from http://stackoverflow.com/, and I'll get cracking on a --browse command.

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👍 Thank you. Yes i was also working on the same feature. You can start working on this. Please make use of the existing function calls for listing and displaying the answers and questions, Dont forget to add -b shorthand as well.

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Are you gonna make an interface like rtv (Nano like interface) too?. Shall i do it? @e-beach

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Well I've never made a fancy CLI using curses, so I would start out just being able to display the text and gradually make it more interactive. I wouldn't want to be working on the same stuff at the same time so there needs to be a clear division of labor - what would you like to do yourself in the next few weeks?

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I am also just getting started with curses.
You can continue working on this, Its all your's now... I was just asking to know whether you are interested in creating the interface with curses. I will follow up once you submit the initial pull request. @e-beach

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I think triggering the home page browsing when a person uses the socli command will be easy to use rather than triggering it using -b and --browse. What's your opinion @e-beach ?

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@e-beach any update on this one?

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@gautamkrishnar I have been busy lately with classes and working on other projects. Depending on how current things pan out, it may be some time before I can work this.

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Thanks, Take your time, @e-beach

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@e-beach shall i start working on the implementation? You seems quite busy...

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@e-beach you can continue... 👍

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@gautamkrishnar
I'm planing on using the curses wrapper urwid.

Do you think an acceptable first step for this would be to write the socli --interactive mode to use urwid? One improvement that could be made is making the o,b,n etc inputs be read immediately, rather than having to press enter.

Also, curses is not supported on windows, so we might want to keep a basic windows version and a more advanced unix version. Do you think this is worth implementing?

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@e-beach looking good 👍 you can use urwind. Yes its better if we can implement the interactive mode with unwind as well. Yes lets keep the basic version for windows 😃

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@e-beach i had made some big changes to the code, Please keep your master & branch uptodate while working on this...

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@gautamkrishnar 👌

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@gautamkrishnar For the very basic first step of this feature, I plan to modify the --interactive option such that the 'o, b, and n' options do not require pressing the enter key. On board?

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Sure @e-beach 👍

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@gautamkrishnar
This is a little demo of what I have been working on. I wonder if you could identify what you would like the feature on master to look like, or are you still very busy?

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@e-beach buddy it looks cool ❤️... Yes i was busy these days attending Microsoft student partner summit....
Thanks a lot for making this a lot more awesome ⭐️ Eagerly waiting for your PR...

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Also, when or on what terms would you feel comfortable moving the code from the develop branch to the master branch?

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@e-beach i will do that soon. Was busy with my academics...

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@e-beach Just merged it with master... Thanks a lot for your contribution.... You rocks! 🎸

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Hey is the issue still open?Can I take this up?

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@Souvikray sorry please wait i will notify you once its ready. Currently, we have some unmerged pull requests.

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Hey, how is this coming along? I'd like to work on it.

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Is this Issue still open I would like to work on it.Looks interesting.

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Yes it looks great idea. I am happy with that. SOCLI is the webpage need to be implemented to make it easy for everyone

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@Souvikray @GrugLife @DhruvThakker @subhaprakash Please let us know if any of you guys are still interested in working on this?

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@gautamkrishnar

If this is still available I’d like to take a crack at this feature request.

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yep @boothlinux you can work on it.

• add a --browse argument that will let you browse the home page
• It should display a list of questions like we do in -iq mode. With the option to switch between tabs.
• user will be able to select one of the questions, he/she will be able to switch between featured, hot, week month, etc. Default: featured.
• it will open in the existing socli implementation, we should add a new option there a: answer. if the user selects this the browser will be opened with the StackOverflow dialog for answering the corresponding question. eg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64085600/cant-send-input-parameter-to-validator-directive-in-angular#post-editor

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This is not required right now.

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