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Just added a more comprehensive release with a lot more install options!

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.

Thanks for all the support and good feedback! First release is out!

https://github.com/bgreenwell/doxx/releases/tag/v0.1.1

I honestly don't get the name hate? It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Exposing" word documents in the CLI.

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.

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!

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.

I appreciate the ecosystem of packages that seem really well maintained. I don’t love the syntax and find Rust harder to read and learn so far compared to something like golang (I’m used to R which is not a compiled language but has a great dev community).

I do love the compiler and support tools built into Cargo (fmt, clippy, etc.).

Really appreciate all the comments and useful feedback (first Rust package). Especially ways to reduce the size of the binary!

lol good catch, and I totally missed it

I used vhs to record the gif which must not run the script in my native terminal! I’ll have to see about fixing it!