Author: epilogue
Date: 08-02-05 20:45
<opera evangelism>
opera (and linux-opera) is a browser which has several outstanding features and which is constantly breaking new ground (tabs anyone?, zooming, spatial navigation, mouse gestures, e-mail filtering borrowed *by* - not from - gmail, and the list goes on and on and on...).
while many of these features have trickled down to the other browsers, i am not sure that all have. one, the subject of this post, just may encourage you give opera a try.
</opera evangelism>
so, in ~/.opera and ~/.linux-opera, there is a file called search.ini. it is a simple text file which, if you take the time to study and hack away at, can offer great rewards in productivity. it offers you the same functionality as a specialised browser search bar, except that it works from the address bar, and you can plug in virutally any database you want.
there are the defaults, which include google:
[Search Engine 1]
Name=&google
URL=http://www.google.ca/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=30&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Query=
Key=g <<<<<<<<<< key can be anything you want
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
in your address bar, just type 'g <search value>' and press [enter], then say goodbye to that google bar and hello to a cleaner looking interface.
NB: you do not type the < > or the ' ' in the example above, but you knew that, right? ;)
(for you keyboard power-users, moving to the address bar is just as simple as F8. try CTRL+B for a nice list of available keyboard shortcuts -- all customizable, btw)
now, you can also add your own search.ini entries. let's look at a few useful BSD entries:
[Search Engine 2]
Name=google &BSD
URL=http://www.google.ca/bsd?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=30&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Query=
Key=b
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
'b <search value>' will now give you the results from google.ca/bsd.
[Search Engine 10]
Name=&freshports port name
URL=http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=%s&search=go&num=20&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesens
itivity=caseinsensitive
Query=
Key=f
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=iso-8859-1
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
[Search Engine 11]
Name=&freshports file desc
URL=http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=%s&search=go&num=20&stype=shortdescription&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&star
t=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive
Query=
Key=ff
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=iso-8859-1
Search Type=0
Verbtext=17063
Position=-1
Nameid=0
'f <search value>' returns freshports <port name> results, while
'ff <search value>' returns freshports <short description> results.
with a few careful edits, you can have any feature of http://www.freshports.org/search.php built right into your plain old address bar. neat, huh?
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there are quite a few search.ini tutorials out there on the web and finding them is just as easy as entering 'g edit search.ini' on your opera address bar.
happy hacking.
cheers,
epi
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