Re: Search from address bar

Johannes Hofmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:53:45PM +0300, Aki Helin wrote:
> > Johannes Hofmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 03:16:09PM +0300, Aki Helin wrote:
> > > > Hi, 
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > Looks good to me. You could even drop the 'len > 0' check, so that
> > prefixing with space leads to search with your first search engine,
> > and an optional prefix can be given to choose another one.
>
> Not sure about that. What I really hate with other browsers is when
> they send the location I typed to some search engine just because
> they think it's not a hostname. Searching for everything that starts
> with a blank seems a bit too aggressive to me.

On second thought, it is. It would also lead to pasted URLs being sent 
to search engine if you accidentally copied a space.


-- 
Aki Helin