Adding explainshell to Chrome's omnibox

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Idan Kamara edited this page May 6, 2017 · 2 revisions

Here's what it looks like once it's setup:

Example

Example

To enable this, secondary click on omnibox and click on Edit search engines. Then go below to add a new search engine with following information:

First field (customizable): name of the search engine
Second field (customizable): word to call that search engine
Third field (not customizable): https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%s

Where to find the settings

Thanks to @Pablohn26 for writing this, idank/explainshell#180 and to @stoivo for adding it to the wiki.