[emacs-w3m:13647] Re: Search engine duckduckgo URL results 404

Tomas Nordin <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Jul 2020 11:51:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.w3m
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Boruch Baum <[email protected]> writes:

> The fix that works for me to be able to use the new duckduckgo website
> is to modify the entry in variale w3m-search-engine-alist to
>
>     ("duckduckgo" "https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite" utf-8 "q=%s")

This is the hard coded default as far as I can see (for duckduckgo) in
`w3m-search-engine-alist'. The result for me using this as the engine
with `w3m-search' is that I get to https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite with
an empty search bar, (the search term I entered in mini-buffer had no
effect).