From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: smclean0640@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: browse select text, text at point Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:19:23 -0700 Message-ID: <86mxgrlhys.fsf@S0106001636ac5854.gv.shawcable.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309957888 28897 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2011 13:11:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:11:28 +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 15:11:23 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 1QeRst-0007mH-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:11:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeRsr-0006zJ-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeR5K-0001mV-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeR5E-0005GJ-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QeR5E-0005G4-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeR5D-00075N-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 24.68.21.93 ([24.68.21.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:19:58 +0200 Original-Received: from smclean0640 by 24.68.21.93 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:19:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.68.21.93 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ft4nvBafcKLeEEv1QL6FzFTGKzc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:81505 Archived-At: 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