[Needlesearch] Feature Request: Opera-like short search

[Belgabor]

Hi Eelco
> 
> Nice job! I incorporated the patch with on mozdev, if you check it out,
> you
> will have
> the latest changes and patch file. Don't forget to take up your name in
> the
> source files.
Glad that you like it =) My full name is 'Tobias Minich' if you want to add
it.

> 
> > - Customization of the name of the folder that holds the 
> > redirection bookmarks
> 
> What do you suggest?

Well, I'd add it to the Options so everbody could choose whatever they want
=)  

> 
> > - Option to automatically recreate the bookmarks when the 
> > keyword of a search engine is changed
> 
> You might not even need the Generate Bookmarks option then, right?

I thought to make it an option, so everyone could choose to automatically do
it or not. That would have the additional benefit of being able to show the
warning (that all files in this folder are deleted) before it's actually
done (for the rare case that someone might already have a folder called
'NeedleSearch' in his bookmark root).

> 
> > - Check if it works in mozilla. It should, but I only checked 
> > in firefox
> 
> I got an error the first time that Firefox tries to generate the bookmarks
> folder

My error. The delete function did give me some trouble till the end and I
forgot to remove the alert in the catch block.

>  
> > Things that would be nice
> > - Buttons for 'generate bookmarks', in the editor as well as 
> > maybe in the needlesearch bar.
> 
> See boefore
> 
> > - Make the auto-adder and editor buttons moveable in firefox. 
> > All other buttons are strictly speaking no longer necessary =)
> 
> You're right
> 
> One more thing I thougt about. Currently you replace make the url in the
> bookmark the following:
> 
> chrome://needlesearch/content/search.html?engine=g&search=test
> 
> Why not get the searchurl and replace needlesearch with %s when it isn't a
> multisearch?

Possible, but it might lead to some charset trouble. I'd say we could add a
option in the search engines properties (eg 'Direct keyword search') for
non-multi non-post searches that will do that. In other cases some charset
mangeling should be added (I just tried to search for a german word
containing an umlaut on dict.leo.org via needlesearch and the addressbar and
it didn't work. We probably need to convert form UTF-8 to the charset set in
the engine before we forward the search terms).

> 
> Thanks for your support Tobias!
You're welcome =)

Cheers,
Tobias

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