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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suggestion: arrow keys to scroll result list
« Last post by phitsc on February 15, 2010, 10:01 AM »
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I guess you have your reasons to make this the default. Nevertheless, I think the *pure* might confuse other people as well.

So hitting page down will re-issue the search instead of just changing the view? (reusing the results from the search before hitting Page Down)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Suggestion: arrow keys to scroll result list
« Last post by phitsc on February 15, 2010, 09:41 AM »
It works. Thanks for that!  :Thmbsup:

I'd keep justice's initial idea on the list though. Scrolling through the results in big icon view mode would still be very cool!

By the way: why is it +sall only shows the *pure* matches (whatever that is)?
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2
« Last post by phitsc on February 09, 2010, 08:57 AM »
Is it possible to do this already and if so, is there a way to do it without specifying absolute paths?
-ewemoa (February 09, 2010, 05:29 AM)
It's not currently possible. If not absolute, relative to what would you like to specify it?
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2
« Last post by phitsc on February 09, 2010, 05:37 AM »
I'd like to be able to specify local files for searchUrl (e.g. for a local copy of the autohotkey script listing page).

Is it possible to do this already and if so, is there a way to do it without specifying absolute paths?

-ewemoa (February 09, 2010, 05:29 AM)
You mean instead of searching in a file downloaded from the web, you want to search in a local file?
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2
« Last post by phitsc on February 05, 2010, 07:49 AM »
I've just done a very quick search config for DevCheatSheets is on this thread.
-Perry Mowbray (February 05, 2010, 07:12 AM)
Cheers! And I have done one that uses the site's search engine:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. description=Cheat sheets for developers
  2. searchUrl=http://devcheatsheet.com/search/?q=
  3. resultPattern=<h2><a href="([^"]*)" title="[^"]*">(.*)</h2>\s*Source: <a href="([^"]*)" title="[^"]*">(.*)</a><br>\s*(.*)<br>\s*Tag(?:s)?: <a href="([^"]*)" title="[^"]*">(.*)</a><br>
  4. farrCaption=$2
  5. farrGroup=Source: $4, $5
  6. farrPath=$1

I'll merge this as a subsearch into yours if you don't mind.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2
« Last post by phitsc on February 05, 2010, 07:37 AM »
    Requested New Functionality to WMS  :)
    • subSearch sorting: I've added a parameter to the subSearches though it can be named anything. OneLook suffers from not having the ability to sort the subSearches.
    • subSearch hiding: Some of the subSearches in TimeAndDate should only be used from the context menu as typing the search criteria in doesn't make sense (and crashes FARR at the moment)
    • Context Menu:
      • I seem to have hit the limit with the context menu. Is that a WMS restriction or FARR?
      • The context menus don't seem to be being cleared for each subSearch. You can see this in the OneLook search: the submenus for the default search are carried over to all of the subSearches. I think it would be preferable to start each subSearch fresh.
      • Can we have subMenus? I'd like to put all the dictionary type searches into a subMenu (Art, Computer, etc)
    • Two-stage RegEx: Those dictionary type searches could really do with a two-stage RegEx Match where the second RegEx operates on the result of the first. I also wondered if a RegEx Replace was possible (would help cleaning up some pages).
    • Search Navigation: It would be helpful to have an ability to backwards and forwards in the search results. Sometimes you can not get back to where you came from with the search results, and a back button would be helpful. Something like this:
      • wms timeanddate +w: cities displayed
      • type "syd": filter to "Sydney"
      • select forecast context menu: 14 day forecast displayed
      • at this point I would like to go back one step to the cities filtered on "syd" to access the current conditions context menu.
    -Perry Mowbray (February 04, 2010, 08:10 AM)
    • subSearch sorting: done
    • subSearch hiding: done
    • context menu item count limitation: fixed
    • context menu items not cleared for subsearches: fixed (but see below)
    • context sub menus: done

    Multi-stage regex and history will have to wait a bit longer I'm afraid :(. Concerning multi-stage regex: how should we specify input/output from one stage to the next?

    Until now, subsearches would inherit any parameters from the main search if they were not specified. This leads to the problem you describe. I've thought about a way to keep this behaviour but get rid of the problem, but did not find anything that pleased me. I saw that you were not using that 'feature' anyway (except maybe for the isFeed parameter) so I just got rid of it thus solving that problem.[/list]
    907
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: DevCheatSheets Alias
    « Last post by phitsc on February 05, 2010, 03:30 AM »
    Good idea ewemoa! I'll add the site to FarrWebMetaSearch too. :)
    908
    Circle Dock / Re: circledock DELETED ALL MY FILES! help!
    « Last post by phitsc on February 04, 2010, 10:04 AM »
    Leason learned. And for me too-- except I dont know what my lesson is: dont trust open source software?
    -thegipper (February 04, 2010, 07:14 AM)

    Always make backups of your data, and make them on a regular basis?
    909
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.2]
    « Last post by phitsc on January 29, 2010, 03:22 PM »
    Perry, congratulations to your 1000th post! :Thmbsup:
    910
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2
    « Last post by phitsc on January 29, 2010, 03:19 PM »
    Check out the new release: there's subsearch abbreviations, context menu support, custom search help file support, Shift + Enter to launch result in FARR's internal web browser, new and updated searches and more...

    And then there's Perry's OneLook search. What can I say: it's just amazing! :-*

    Actually, I think wms onelook has become my main use of FARR. :D
    911
    Developer's Corner / Re: GUIDs...
    « Last post by phitsc on January 28, 2010, 02:12 PM »
    Whew, I'm only glad the consumption of GUIDs is not something you're asked about in the ecological footprint quiz. I guess I would have scored even worse!
    912
    Developer's Corner / Re: GUIDs...
    « Last post by phitsc on January 28, 2010, 06:17 AM »
    Indeed I have. I once went so far as to generate me 100 of them, even though I only needed one, just to make sure they haven't all run out once I should need another one. Still have 93 of them left. I could maybe offer them on ebay...
    913
    N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - POST YOUR MUG PHOTOS HERE
    « Last post by phitsc on January 21, 2010, 02:39 PM »
    Hugo says thank you for his new bowl!

    Hugo1.jpg


    Now that he owns such a big bowl he thinks he should get much more food though.

    Hugo2.jpg


    Maybe I can eat these birdies too  :)

    Hugo3.JPG
    914
    Developer's Corner / Re: Soon you can code and sell applications for Amazon's Kindle eBook
    « Last post by phitsc on January 21, 2010, 10:37 AM »
    Subscribed for the KDK Limited Beta already :D

    Although, I saw no mention whatsoever about Development OS / Programming language / IDE, etc.
    915
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 20, 2010, 01:38 PM »
    Abbreviations: either/or, yes.
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 19, 2010, 04:20 PM »
    If we start by thinking what would work for this scenario that then refine so that it's useful for all??

    For this type of search what would be nice is to re-use part of the result for different subSearches.

    So if I had a reverse search on "Play with words" I get a hundred results+ (words). What would be neat is to be able to get that result ($1 from the RegEx) and use that as the search term for a new search. That way if I wasn't sure about the meaning of a word I could select it and use it to do a new search.

    This was why I was wondering about a context menu definition: you could add text for menu and the subSearch to use
    • "Definition of $1" >> [Quick]
    • "Dictionary listings with $1" >> [Dicts]
    • "Phrases with $1" >> [Prase]
    • etc
    -Perry Mowbray (January 18, 2010, 06:03 PM)
    Ok, I'll try to do that next.

    Is search history a possibility? I'm wondering about navigating backward from the definition lookup mentioned before. That would make good status bar icons.
    -Perry Mowbray (January 18, 2010, 06:03 PM)
    Can you please elaborate?

    subSearch abbreviations is a good idea, you'll notice I used [Dicts], but +Di would be even better  :)
    -Perry Mowbray (January 18, 2010, 06:03 PM)
    I've implemented abbreviations. They will be specified like so: [Dicts|Di]
    917
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrSpell - Spelling and Thesaurus Plugin for FARR
    « Last post by phitsc on January 19, 2010, 10:54 AM »
    Mouser, don't forget to list the new plugins on your FARR addons page. I would assume that this is still the best place for new FARR users to discover what plugins are available.
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 18, 2010, 04:24 PM »
    Very cool Perry! Thanks for that.

    I've started to implement the possibility to show basic info about searches. Pressing Shift + Enter on a search without search terms will show info about the respective search in FARR's internal HTML view mode.

    Concerning a quick way of navigating between subsearches: making it possible to add a switch at the end would certainly be an option. It has two drawbacks though: it will trigger a re-search (which I might be able to prevent) and it won't be possible to show a list of subsearches for the user to select. However, I had these two ideas to help with the problem:
    1. add a statusbar icon for each subsearch. pressing an icon would switch to the respective subsearch with the current search terms.
    2. introduce subsearch abbreviations so that a user doesn't have to type the whole subsearch name (because there's no auto completion when used at the end instead of at the beginning)

    what do you think?
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 15, 2010, 03:23 PM »
    New version adds some of your requests (well, multi stage regex searches not yet ;)). I haven't tested the variable replacements very well. So if something doesn't work as you'd expect please contact me before searching for an error at your end too long.

    I've added the possibility to switch to FARR's extended list mode (with the small icons). If a search returns more items than what you've set as max. items in normal mode a small icon is shown in the status bar (on the far right). Clicking it will switch to extended mode. You'll note that this mode doesn't handle html tags. It would be nice if it would at least just discard them. You might have requested that the plugin switches to that mode automatically when there are more than 'max. items in normal mode' items. I don't like that though, so I'd have to make it an option (but there's no way to configure any options yet, so I'd have to add that too).
    920
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.2.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 14, 2010, 03:23 PM »
    New version fixes the bug reported by Perry, updates Perry's onelook search and adds play.com search and kindleforum feed.
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.1.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 13, 2010, 07:05 AM »
    Here is an update to the onelook search:  (see attachment in previous post)
    -Perry Mowbray (January 12, 2010, 04:21 PM)
    Thanks. Will be in the next release!

    I think you are not clearing the farrGroup definition when loading a subSearch though? If you check this updated subSearch you'll notice that +Phrase and +Reverse both keep the original farrGroup definition.
    -Perry Mowbray (January 12, 2010, 04:21 PM)
    Thanks for reporting this one. Will be fixed in the next release.

    Also, do you think it would be helpful to be able to add the subsearch switch anywhere? In the onelook search for example I wouldn't mind being able to change from Phrase to quick then to dictionary...
    -Perry Mowbray (January 12, 2010, 04:21 PM)
    Indeed I think it would. And I have put it on my todo list. The advantage of having the switch at the front is that I don't have to start searching until actual search terms have been entered. If I allow the switch to be anywhere, adding/changing the switch either triggers a research for every character entered, or I have to detect while typing that the thing being entered is actually a switch and not part of the search term. But I'll definitely implement this somehow.
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.1.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 12, 2010, 02:13 PM »
    Perry, please download a special version of FarrWebMetaSearch from here. The only difference to the current official release is that it will print out the current search term and the regex used in the debug output which you can view with the DebugView tool.
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    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.1.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 12, 2010, 11:30 AM »
    Concerning %SEARCHTERM% not working:
    Although I haven't made a search using it, I've tested it in the debugger and it worked as expected. Nevertheless, I'll make you a version that prints out the regex used in DebugView so you can check if it's replaced as you would expect.

    Concerning your multi-stage regex idea:
    I'll implement that so you can check if it helps with this difficult to parse page.

    Concerning the context menu:
    A very good idea!
    924
    FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.0.0
    « Last post by phitsc on January 09, 2010, 03:47 PM »
    I have improved the help file somewhat. .config files still need a much better description though. To open the help file type

    wms ? and hit enter

    You'll notice that it's a TiddlyWiki file. While that obviously has quite some overhead I find it very convenient to edit.

    Perry: %SEARCHTERM% in the resultPattern will now be replaced by the search terms entered
    lanux128: I've added twitter. Please check it out and tell me what you think

    I have now changed the behaviour for web feeds. As there is no live searching on feeds FarrWebMetaSearch treats them a bit differently. Instead of doing live searching, the search terms typed will now narrow down the results to match the search terms. Note that you'll have to wait until the results are displayed after typing the search name. You can try like this:

    'wms engadget ' (currently needs the space), then wait for the results and type a search term

    The .config file needs isFeed=true to distinguish it from regular searches.
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    N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch
    « Last post by phitsc on January 08, 2010, 05:25 PM »
    Version 1.0.0 is up. I've added a topic on the FARR plugins board here. Updates will follow there. I'll add a screen shot and link to the web cast tomorrow.
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