On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 09:21:51AM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:02:12PM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
Hi Johannes,
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:51:39PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:20:27PM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:41:23PM +0000, corvid wrote:
Johannes wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 03:16:09PM +0300, Aki Helin wrote: > Hi, > > Currently when using a window manager where focus follows mouse, making a > search usually requires you to reach for the mouse. One way to avoid this > would be to allow using search engine(s) directly from the address bar. > > Searches would have to be differentiated somehow from URLs. Dillo already > has a customizable list of engines in preferences, so one natural solution > would be to interpret url strings which start with the name of a search > engine as searches to be performed using it, so that e.g. 'wikipedia > slartibartfast', 'google foo' and 'weather oulu' do what you would expect. > > Below is a quick patch I've used to do this for a while, should anyone > else find this feature useful.
This has been discussed before, but somehow wasn't completed. I like your idea to reuse the search engine name to derive the shortcut. However, I would allow arbitrary prefixes of the search engine name as in the slightly modified patch below. What do you think?
This is good, although there's a leading space in the search text that some of my search sites don't like.
The leading space should of course not be part of the search term.
If nobody objects I will commit this tomorrow.
The current format for search_url in a_Misc_parse_search_url() is:
"[<label> ]<url>"
IMHO, it'd be much better to have it this way in the patch:
"[<label[:abbr]> ]<url>"
where "abbr" means abbreviation. e.g.
search_url="Free Dictionary:fd http://www.thefreedictionary.com/%s"
that way I could search "slick" from the location box like this:
fd slick
and keep the descriptive names for the GUI interface.
The idea of the proposed patch is to allow arbitrary prefixes of the descriptive names as shortcuts, so
goo dillo duck dillo
but also
g dillo d dillo
would work without further configuration work. In case there is more than one match, the first wins.
Does this make sense or should do you prefer explicit configurable shortcuts? Cheers, Johannes