molleweide / vim-search-web

A vim plugin to search for things in Web

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+=-

Other Similar plugins

• https://github.com/szw/vim-g
• https://github.com/mickaobrien/vim-stackoverflow
• vim-search-me