[qutebrowser] keyword bookmarks

Amos Joshua amos at asperasoft.com
Thu Feb 23 10:52:32 CET 2017


Thank you Florian and José for your answers. I will play around with it.
The browser is very cool

Amos

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:41 AM, José Alberto Orejuela García <
jose.gif at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I know that it's not a function of qutebrowser, but other way of searching
> almost wherever is, provided you have duckduckgo as your default search
> engine, using bangs. For example, an equivalent of
>
> > :set searchengines yt https://youtube.com/results?search_query={}
> > :open yt foo.
>
> would be
>
> :open foo !yt
>
> Obviously, this is slower as you have to load (a very light version of
> the) duckduckgo page first, but I think it might be of your interest.
>
> José Alberto
>
>
> On lunes, 20 de febrero de 2017 9:23:14 (CET) Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > Hey Amos,
> >
> > Sorry for the late answer - I was busy with exams and your mail got
> > filtered as you're not subscribed to the list ;)
> >
> > * Amos Joshua <amos at asperasoft.com> [2017-01-29 22:20:29 -0800]:
> > > I am trying to recreate the keyword-bookmark functionality in
> pentadactyl -
> > > I've read through the docs several times and cannot figure out how (or
> if)
> > > I can have a bookmark with a substitution, e.g. I'd like "yt foo" to
> open "
> > > youtube.com/results?search_query=foo". Is this possible and if so,
> how can
> > > it be accomplished?
> >
> > Bookmarks can't do that in qutebrowser, but there are search engines.
> > When you do something like:
> >
> >     :set searchengines yt https://youtube.com/results?search_query={}
> >
> > (untested) you can do :open yt foo.
> >
> > Florian
> >
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