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It really shines for me, since I have pentadactyl installed in my firefox. From the blank tab page, I can be searching github (or the python docs, or <insert on
by untothebreach 12y ago
It really shines for me, since I have pentadactyl installed in my firefox. From the blank tab page, I can be searching github (or the python docs, or <insert one of the multitude of !searches here) with the following keystrokes:
o !github language:python
'o' tells pentadactyl to go to a url. When I don't give it a URL it instead sends what I type to my default search engine.
The funny thing is that unless I am actually searching DDG, I almost never see it.
Sure you could do this by defining a whole bunch of search aliases, but it is more fun to think, "I wonder if I can search the Arch Wiki from here," type `o !arch some search`, and all of a sudden find yourself on the arch wiki search page.
- saidajigumi 12y agoThat's a great UI synergy. Also, I had no idea Pentadactyl[1] existed. What an interesting plugin, thanks for bringing it up! [1] http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
- dredmorbius 12y agoPentadactyl or vimperator. I can never remember which one is being currently developed. I mostly use vimperator on Firefox. Installed it as a total lark and found almost instantly that I loved it.
- grn 12y agoThere's also VimFx which is also actively developed.
- untothebreach 12y agoPentadactyl is the one currently being developed. I believe it was forked from vimperator when vimperator development stalled.