[Vimperator] Bookmark Keyword and VIMperator search tokens

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:04:11AM +0100, Pierre Andrews wrote:
> I looked in the archive but couldn't find what I wanted (it's annoying
> not to have a searchable archive, could we register the list with
> gmane.org? I can do it if you don't have time)

Oh please do so, a searchable archive would really be cool. And then
post here a link to the archive.

> Anyway, I saw the TODO:
> 6 support firefox search engines, or at least make our search enginges
> user configurable
> 
> but am not sure that's what I mean.
> 
> In firefox, in addition to the "search engines" dialogue, you can
> directly type a keyword+search in the location bar. This  is
> configured by simple bookmarks to which you associate a keyword. Then
> the %s part of the bookmark is replaced by your search terms.
> 
> So I can type for example:
> answer whale
> and it will open answers.com with a search for whale.
> 
> However, this seems to be "broken"/disabled in VIMperator and only the
> default, non configurable, search token from the extension are
> availlable.
> Would it be difficult to add this default firefox feature back? I am
> not talking of the search engines, but the keyword bookmarks, so
> that's probably a different feature ;)

Somebody on IRC is already investigating the problem. As it seems,
keyword bookmarks and default firefox search engines are the same, so
once we support the one thing, we'll have the other thing. Don't know
how much work it is really to support it though. Therefore the '6'
priority.