[Vimperator] Search engine aliases

[Andrzej Ostruszka]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com> wrote:
> Dmitry --
>
>         Rather than using search plugins, why don't you just use bookmark quick
>  searches?
[...]
>  What's inconvenient about that?
>
>         Because of bookmark keywords (either manually with "%s" or by "[adding]
>  a keyword for this search" in the context menu), I have no use for
>  Firefox's search plugins. I think bookmark keywords work really well
>  with Vimperator's "o" shortcut for open.
>
>         Am I missing something?

Once upon the time (no it's not a fairy tale :D) it happened to me
with one Polish-English dictionary that I had to use their
searchplugin instead of bookmark with keyword.  The problem was the
encoding.  They used iso8859-2 in their search engine (and in the
searchplugin this encoding was marked properly) but when I used the
url directly then firefox used utf8 for that and the search was
failing.  The dictionary has moved to utf8 now so the problem does not
exist any more in this case, but this might be one advantage of
searchplugins.  Apart from that I have no problem with using keyed
bookmarks.

Best regards
Andrzej