[Needlesearch] needlsearch: custom keywords?

Robert Freund rfreund at uos.de
Tue Jun 22 14:16:33 EDT 2004


Hi,

I have a nice feature idea for needlesearch:

It would be great to be able to define a custom keyword per search
engine in needlesearch, that allows you to go to the search engine only
using the keyboard.

E.g., you could give google.com the keyword "gg", and google.com/linux
the keyword "gx". Then you could simply type in "gg test" to search
google for "test", and "gx test" to search google.com/linux for "test".

The keyword and search terms could either be entered via the url input
field, or the needlesearch input field (which is probably easier to
program). The browser's url field would be much nicer though because
then you could simply hide the needlesearch bar and still use
needlesearch.

This feature is implemented in konqueror; you can also get this
behaviour in mozilla by using custom keywords:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
The configuration of custom keywords is quite cumbersome, though. It
would be much nicer to have this in needlesearch.


Another thing concerning the website of needlesearch: On the homepage,
the emailaddress is strongly obfuscated; but on the
"Support&Needlesearch"-page it is in clear text.

Regards,
Robert.


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