[xmonad] darcs patch: +XMonad.Util.Search: new module (and 1 more)

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Fri Dec 14 18:18:48 EST 2007


On Thursday 13 December 2007 14:58:16 gwern0 at gmail.com wrote:
> Thu Dec 13 15:51:59 EST 2007  gwern0 at gmail.com
>   * +XMonad.Util.Search: new module
>   This module is intended to provide helpful functions for easily running
> web searchs; just hit a bound key, enter your query, and up opens a new
> tab/browser/window with the search results. In theory anyway; the Wikipedia
> and Google ones work fine for me, but the Internet Archive's docs on how to
> do don't necessarily seem to be correct. If you were, like me, previously
> running shell commands to call Surfraw or similar shell scripts to do the
> same thing, you can now scrap them and replace them.
>
>   There aren't too many search engines defined here; new ones would be
> good, and they're easy to add!
>
> Thu Dec 13 15:56:54 EST 2007  gwern0 at gmail.com
>   * +cabal support for XMonad.Util.Search

The network dependency is unacceptable, so I've removed the escapeURI stuff.
Perhaps we can copy it into xmonad?


Spencer Janssen



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