The magic of Google Autocomplete while you're typing. Anywhere.
An extension for Hammerspoon. Once Hammerspoon is installed, copy anycomplete.lua to ~/.hammerspoon/.
To initialize, add dofile("anycomplete.lua") to ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua (creating it if it does not exist). Reload the Hammerspoon config.
Trigger with the hotkey ⌃⌥⌘G. Once you start typing, suggestions will populate. They can be choosen with ⌘1-9 or by pressing the arrow keys and Enter.
The hotkey can be changed by editing hs.hotkey.bind.
No keystrokes are sent to Google until you trigger the hotkey and start typing. If you prefer DuckDuckGo, replace GOOGLE_ENDPOINT with:
'https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=%s' and the imap function with this:
choices = hs.fnutils.imap(results[2], function(result)
return {
["text"] = result["phrase"],
}
end)