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Ask HN: Keyboard friendly search engine for developers?
I recently switched to Vim key bindings in all my text editors. I found out that I can do most of the things from keyboard directly. The bigger pain point as of now is Googling stuff. I can switch to Chrome and search on Google all from keyboard. That is all fine. Problem is that when I'm searching terms like "filename from pathlib Path" I'm searching for one line example. I'd love to have a search engine which is geared towards programmers that can show me the results directly from the search, without having to click any link.
Requirements are:
- decent search results
- either show the answer directly or allow me to jump to the first result from keyboard
- smcn 4y agoI'd recommend you look at something like vimium: https://vimium.github.io/ https://vimium.github.io/ Gives you vim keybindings across your entire browser. It doesn't solve your issue of having to click through to links but for that, maybe https://you.com/ https://you.com/?
- tomas789 4y agoVimium is very interesting. I was probably inevitable that somebody made something like this. Maybe a bit of too steep learning curve for what am I trying to achieve. I have already tried you.com but honestly the results were underwhelming. The suggestions of the results page were not very good. I was trying that while doing some Python. I guess other languages might be even worse.
- johncoltrane 4y agoAh! The "Vim everywhere" phase. We all go through it at some point. You will eventually get over it.
- tomas789 4y agoYou just have to touch some fires yourself to learn the lesson I guess :)