this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
358 points (96.6% liked)
Asklemmy
43851 readers
743 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm interested in finding ways to use it but when if I'm writing code I really like the spectrum of different answers on stack overflow with comment's on WHY they did it that way. Might use it for boring emails though.
I think my best use case is creating regex just dump a bunch of examples, test if it's wrong and tell them what is wrong
re-builder in Emacs works really good for this because I'll usually have the text in a buffer already that I want to match or replace or adjust or select - I'm constantly using it.
I tried using it for coding couple of times and it wasn't very helpful. For simple stuff it's not much faster than looking at the docs directly. It's kind of a nice interface for them but it's nothing revolutionary. And it's not really much faster then just checking on ddg. For more complex things it often skips steps, references outdated libraries or just gives wrong answers.