From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse select text, text at point Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:59:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4E14BEA4.7000503@dogan.se> References: <86mxgrlhys.fsf@S0106001636ac5854.gv.shawcable.net> <4E146686.2010103@dogan.se> <4E149CC4.5070604@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309983238 5883 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2011 20:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:13:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 22:13:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYTm-0001Wu-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:13:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYTl-0005Z0-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYHB-0002SK-EC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYGy-000691-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:54610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYGy-00068m-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-105-155.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.105.155]:53583 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QeYG4-0003c2-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:59:42 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4E149CC4.5070604@easy-emacs.de> X-Originating-IP: 80.216.105.155 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1QeYG4-0003c2-HJ. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1QeYG4-0003c2-HJ 9b3435a80c12249106534877278ee384 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81511 Archived-At: On 2011-07-06 19:35, Andreas Röhler wrote: > 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. > That's because the URL is wrong of course. :) I couldn't bother finding the right querystring to use. This seems to work though: (concat "http://www.google.com/search?q=" (url-hexify-string "Hello there")) Deniz