Re: Search from address bar

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.