Re: Search from address bar

"Sebastian Geerken" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mo, Jun 17, 2013, Aki Helin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What if the "search" dialog follows the "find text" dialog, by being
> integrated into the browser window? This would also solve some other
> problems with the current search dialog, which is currently
> application-modal.

That would be good in the sense that it is also how you search from pages,
but the ability to construct queries from address bar could also be
(ab)used to do other kinds of things, like "toread <currenturl>" -> dpi
url to save bookmark under "toread", "feed <url>" -> send url to rss/atom
reader dpi and add to feed source list if found, "bookmark <prefix>" ->
open bookmark with given prefix in name, etc.

(Obviously I don't mind if you decide to go for something completely
different. Dillo is so compact it's easier to patch to your liking 
than it is to find configuration options in some browsers :)


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Aki Helin