Re: Search from address bar

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.

  Johannes