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Author Topic: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?  (Read 5392 times)

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how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« on: October 27, 2015, 09:29 AM »
Hello,

I am a lazy user who want to minimise typing.
I find myself tying 'search' too long, in firefox all I do is for example : g (google search) $$1 (search terms) and done.
I have multiple search engines set like this and I want FARR to do the same.

I have set alias like this but it is not working.. (Copied from original search alias)
1.JPGhow to use 'g' instead of 'search'?

when I type 'g', 'google: $$1' indeed appears but when I then put any search terms i.e. g food
All I get is : "Hello there. Because there were no results, hitting enter to 'trigger' your search has no effect."
I can also see that when I just enter g, google appears with $$1 searched.

Also I wish to open FARR with hotkey win + space but error code appears that I cannot use this key.
Why is this?

Sorry for noob question and many thanks in advance.
« Last Edit: October 27, 2015, 09:37 AM by seol1500 »

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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2015, 10:55 AM »
You almost got it right, now just change the "Regular Expression" for that alias to: ^g (.*)



Win+Space may be reserved by windows..


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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2015, 06:31 AM »
It works now..
Fantastic program,
Thank you developer.

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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2015, 08:24 AM »
Happy to help -- I'm glad the program is useful to you  :up:

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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2015, 07:04 PM »
Can you kindly add support for korean/Japanese language please?

For now, when I type
search 'korean text'
That korean text part is unrecognised by the firefox/chrome.

If possible I would like to volunteer for interface translation too.

Many thanks in advance.

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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2019, 08:24 AM »
Just added this to my FARR setup. Great program!  Ever consider making a linux version?

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Re: how to use 'g' instead of 'search'?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2019, 11:36 PM »
I know there are some programs similar to FARR available for linux.. perhaps our linux users could share their favorite such tool?