[Vimperator] Search engine shortcuts?

[Sitaram Chamarty]

Hi Doug,

My apologies for being unclear.

On 8/21/07, Doug Kearns <dougkearns at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The work machine behaves like 0.4 in this respect!
>
> Which is to submit the args to Google?

Precisely.  In all cases (ie., whichever of my dozen or so keywords I
try) I get a google page that searches for "kw searchstring", where kw
is whatever keyword I have used.

> > 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"?

Again, that is precisely what happens when I unset defsearch and try
my keyword opens.

> 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/)

I understand.  But the behaviour is as per the documentation :-)  But
only on my work machine.

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

Just tried it.  The first 4 are "about:blank", "answers", "chambers",
and "del", then a whole bunch of file URLs.  I figured it's because I
use "wildoptions=sort" and the "f" in "file:///" seems to come between
the "del" and "google", so I set cpt=sb and tried again, and got
"google", "imdb", "the", "webster", "wikipedia", and "yahoo".  Then it
wraps to the top.  None of these are my keywords.

As soon as I go home I will try the exact same thing on the home
machine and report back -- I'll bet my keywords show up in the list,
and I have to figure out what I'm doing wrong on the office machine.

I must add though, that going into about:config and filtering with
"vimperator" gets me only the following keys: commandline_history,
complete ("sb"), defsearch ("google"), firsttime ("false"), guioptions
(empty), quickmarks, showstatuslinks (2), and wildoptions ("sort").
Nothing else.  And I know this is the same on the home machine because
I stopped firefox, cleaned out prefs from prefs.js using vim, and then
started on both machines to try and isolate the problem.

Either it's interaction with some other extension, or I'm stumped.
The extensions I have are: AdBlock+, All-in-one gestures, British
English Dictionary, DOM Inspector, DownloadHelper, DownThemAll,
It'sAllText, NewsFox, NoScript, ScrapBook, Sunrise, SwitchProxy,
TiddlySnip, and WebDeveloper.  I'm not sure what I have at home, but
it's not as many (I think All-in-One gestures and Its All Text are
missing but I'll check and get back to you!)

Many thanks for your help.

Sitaram

>
> Regards,
> Doug
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