[Vimperator] Search engine shortcuts?

[Doug Kearns]

G'day Sitaram,

On 8/20/07, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have about a dozen search keywords/shortcuts like the "wp" mentioned
> above, and the biggest thing about 0.5 for me was that I can finally
> say: "t wp something" or "t abbr TLA" or "t slang something" (you get
> the idea!) and it now does the right thing.

Good.

> But this only works fine on my home machine, not at work.  Same Linux,
> same Firefox (2.0.0.6), pretty much the same list of extensions on
> both, though the work one does have a few more.
>
> The work machine behaves like 0.4 in this respect!

Which is to submit the args to Google?

> To put my problem differently, I don't like step 3 in the list of 4
> steps you see if you type ":help :open".  I want it to go straight to
> step 4.
>
> And no, unsetting "defsearch" didn't help.  It barfed :-(

Could you be more specific about the error? :)  So ':open somekeyword'
failed with an alert box "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"?

Unsetting 'defsearch' isn't going to help with your keyword bookmarks
not being found.   Steps 2 and 3 in :open's help should state more
clearly that they both apply to search engine aliases AND keywords -
with search engine matches having priority. (i.e. s/search
engine/search engine or keyword/)

However, with an unset 'defaultsearch' keywords should, obviously, still work.

Are your search engines all broken on the work machine too?  Does
:open offer the search engines and keywords in the commandline
completion window?

Regards,
Doug