Re: [dev] surf-0.6-searchengine

From: Ari Malinen <ari.malinen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 01:04:08 +0300

>The way I always get around this search vs. URI schema dilemma for URLs in
>my DNS search domain is by appending a slash to the end, which at least makes
>Chromium behave as expected.

I added detection of url if there is slash at the end of line.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Truls Becken <truls.becken_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-08-06, at 21:35, Chris Down wrote:
>
>> On 2013-08-06 21:27, Truls Becken wrote:
>>> The advantage of the approach on the wiki is that you can have multiple
>>> search engines configured, or really, URL shortcuts with optional string
>>> substitution. Firefox has the same thing.
>>
>> I, for one, only really use one search engine, but I agree that this method is
>> inflexible in that way (although that's fairly implicit in the method).
>
>
> It's not only useful for multiple search engines. You could for instance have
> a shortcut for running your default search engine against a specific site,
> or as in one of the examples on the wiki, to look up words in a dictionary,
> or simply as a shortcut to a page with no argument at all.
>
> -Truls

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