From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: browse select text, text at point
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:35:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E149CC4.5070604@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E146686.2010103@dogan.se>
Am 06.07.2011 15:43, schrieb Deniz Dogan:
> On 2011-07-06 14:19, smclean0640@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wondering whether anyone in the group knows a package that will
>> accomplish the following:
>> - I am on a word, say "limousine", by pressing a keystroke I can browse
>> this word in google (or a chosen search engine) with my default browser,
>> - I have selected a region of text and I want to search that text in my
>> default browser.
>>
>> Any ideas as to how to most effectively accomplish this? Downloading a
>> packaged would be ideal, but I am willing to try my hand at elisp.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>
> Something like this should google the word at point.
>
>
> (defun google-word-at-point ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((word (thing-at-point 'word)))
> (if word
> (funcall browse-url-browser-function
> (concat "http://google.com/" word))
> (error "No word at point!"))))
>
> You can either call this using M-x google-word-at-point RET or bind it
> to a suitable key:
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'google-word-at-point)
>
> You could extend the function `google-word-at-point' further to check if
> `use-region-p' returns non-nil and if so use the region as the "word".
>
> Hope that helps,
> Deniz
>
>
Interesting, but get an 404 error.
BTW would build something from
w3m-browse-url
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 12:19 browse select text, text at point smclean0640
2011-07-06 13:43 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-06 17:35 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-07-06 19:59 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-07 7:07 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-07 7:28 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-06 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-08 12:05 ` Stuart McLean
2011-07-06 19:42 ` Thamer Mahmoud
2011-07-07 8:24 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-07-07 9:24 ` Jonathan Groll
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