From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse select text, text at point Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:07:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4E155B29.7070401@easy-emacs.de> References: <86mxgrlhys.fsf@S0106001636ac5854.gv.shawcable.net> <4E146686.2010103@dogan.se> <4E149CC4.5070604@easy-emacs.de> <4E14BEA4.7000503@dogan.se> 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 1310023257 12483 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2011 07:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:20:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 09:20:53 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 1QeitI-0005PI-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeitG-0006aq-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeigP-00040f-RT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeigN-0003YA-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:49374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeigN-0003Xm-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4d0c2fa4.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.47.164]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M9NCY-1QpCGd2sYg-00CLz4; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:07:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <4E14BEA4.7000503@dogan.se> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:v2eA4ULbLn6PMsj6HfkHbj1Z2/mc4cgXhOe4QIrviQ8 tsNLQj386UkSw9muDipESUU1OBIvETLBNaBk22T38WLh9eLvPc p4bEeTcs+srnW6RRNeqpCorTlflswOYBv/kspdiCEbikGVEdap vgXaM+A+bSA1LRbUTVEhhRyE8N4KxmErtQv7bLRBmwEtbu2oY9 mCdTBlzyEmsas8o/XVsrj3C4Bw4gMSBXON8IU0cq94= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.126.187 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:81513 Archived-At: Am 06.07.2011 21:59, schrieb Deniz Dogan: > 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 > > thanks, BTW let's mention the code of "whois" in this context. Andreas