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A vim plugin to search for things in Web

License: MIT License

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vim-search-web's Introduction

vim-search-web

Search the web from your Vim editor

Install

Place in ~/.vim/plugin/vim-search-web.vim

For Pathogen

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/rajasegar/vim-search-web.git

With Vundle

Add this to your plugins list in .vimrc

Plugin 'rajasegar/vim-search-web'

Usage

Normal mode

Just place the cursor on any word about which you want to search and use the key binding <Leader>sg.

That's all, now a separate browser window will open with your search results.

Visual mode

Just select any word about which you want to search and use the key binding <Leader>sg.

Ex mode

You can specify the supported search engines as the first parameter and then followed by the keyword.

:OpenSearch("Google", "hello world")

Key Bindings

[Leader]sdi => Dictionary Search
[Leader]sd => DuckduckGo Search
[Leader]sgi => Github Search
[Leader]sg => Google Search
[Leader]sn => npm Search
[Leader]sr => reddit Search
[Leader]ss => StackOverflow Search
[Leader]st => Thesaurus Search
[Leader]sw => Wikipedia Search
[Leader]sy => Youtube Search

Configuration

There are just a few global variables (options) you may set in the .vimrc file.

g:vsw_open_command

Sets the command used to open the URL. In case of Ubuntu this would be "xdg-open":
```
  let g:vsw_open_command = "xdg-open"
```

FAQS

Not able to search keywords with '-' (hyphens)

This plugin is using CWORD so spaces and other special characters like hyphens are ignored. So if you want to include hypens also in your search keywords, just add them(temporarily) to iskeyword.

:set iskeyword+=-

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vim-search-web's Issues

some strings are not escaped

when i tried doing search in css properties and html meta tags it yieded errors:

searching for <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> yields ```xdg-open: unexpected argument 'initial-scale=1.0 />'
Try 'xdg-open --help' for more information.

shell returned 1``` from the terminal (outside of vim)

searching for color: #222; yields Error detected while processing function OpenSearch: line 3: E194: No alternate file name to substitute for '#': !xdg-open "https://google.com/search?q= color: #222;" (from within vim)

i think some strings are not properly escaped. but otherwise this is a very convenient plugin. help plz.

btw i think a similar repo works slightly better: https://github.com/voldikss/vim-browser-search this searches for the meta tag but got rid of whatever that comes after '#' in the color line.

Include filetype or language-specific search

For example, [Leader]sf would search on a language-specific website: cplusplus.com for .cpp files... so on.

Also, [Leader]S could append the filetype to the search.

entering insert mode every time

hi, i'm on Ubuntu 18.04 using ultimate vimrc with vim 8.2.

ultimate vimrc provides shortcuts like <leader>ss for spell checking and it worked fine. however, when i type <leader>sg in normal mode when my cursor is on a word, it enters the insert mode and replaces the first character of the word with a g.

ulitmate vimrc seems to use pathogen and so i just placed vim-search-web under ~/.vim_runtime/my_plugins. this used to work on other machines but this time i just can't get it to work. help please.