Readit Newsw108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
Install from source with git surely cannot be your only deployment plan here?
Just added a more comprehensive release with a lot more install options!
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
> claude.md in the repo
Very unfortunate
What an ignorant comment! I've been developing (statistical) software for 10+ years! This project would've taken me 6+ months at least, but I've been able to take the idea + some scratch code to production in a weekend.
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
Thanks for all the support and good feedback! First release is out!
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
Can you use this to basically cat the output and then you can grep the docx?
pandoc can do this
Maybe? I don't use Pandoc directly (fantastic program, but I only use it thorugh Quarto and Rmarkdown), but something like `doxx document.docx --export text | grep "search term"` should work just like `cat`+`grep`, but with better table structure and no intermediate conversion needed like pandoc.
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
I hate Word but sometimes have to deal with it when I would rather just have plain text. (Among other reasons, Word is notorious for making it difficult to select text to copy and paste, especially when dealing with legal citations and quotations.) Furthermore, the structure of documents is important to understanding them, especially in the law. So it seems like it would be useful to work with the text of the documents without locking horns with M$.
Scripting uses interest me too. Perhaps pandoc will still be a better option, but I'm also a sucker for TUIs and _Charm projects!
I'm working to improve the copy/paste. Right now, you can copy everything, but not select snippets to copy/paste (ways around this, though). Hopefully have it working in the next week!
w108bmg commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
Great project! Looking forward to trying it out in my law practice.
The name causes miscues and carries negative connotations, though, on account of its homonym verb (doxxing).
It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Doxxing" documents by exposing their contents in the terminal instead of keeping them locked in Microsoft Word. The whole project is about "liberation from Office" so the pun felt perfect. I'm honestly not too creative so I was bouncing around with Google Gemini on some "clever" names.