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Feature Request v2 - time to get started

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Carol Haynes:
The configurable launcher works quite well from RoboForms new tool bar search function. You just set up the format of the search URL and then have a drop down list of configured URLs by just typing what you want to look for. It is also useful as it keeps a search histroy too - so you can easily look for items from different URLs by a single click.

This is certainly available in RoboForm Pro, but I have no easy way of checking the free version of RoboForm (it doesn't say this is restricted on the website). RoboForm is a brilliant password/identity manager and notes store and worth getting if you don't use it already. It also works well in Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla and other browsers too that I haven't tried like Opera.

See http://www.roboform.com/ for further details.

Here are the URLs I currently have set up in Roboform and they really speed up my shopping!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=news&go=homepage&q=
http://news.google.com/news?q=
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=robo&ei=UTF-8&p=
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?ei=UTF-8&p=
http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0&n=200000169&sortby=2&kn=
http://www.musicroom.com/gmsearch.aspx?searchtype=mr_products&searchtext=
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&page=search&Go.x=50&Go.y=9&searchstring=
http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?searchtype=r1title&page=search&searchstring=
http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=
http://www.happyhunter.co.uk/
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=
http://web.ask.com/web?q=
http://a9.com/
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cs=utf-8&q=
http://www.mamma.com/Mamma?qtype=0&query=

mouser:
great suggestions.
i think that my plan for f&r commands is going to do what nontroppo and carol says, let me expain.

you will be able to make a command in f&r that says:
Match on regular expression: "wik (.*)"
and then list the following as results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$$1
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$$1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=$$1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=news&go=homepage&q=$$1

so you see the idea is when user types: "wik donationcoder"
then they will see in results box the 4 possible searchs:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=donationcoder
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=donationcoder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=donationcoder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=news&go=homepage&q=donationcoder

its exactly like group aliases.  in fact now that i think about it, i think we can merge the group alias list and command list into one thing, which makes like even easier, ill just let user specify an optional regular expression mask for group aliases.

now, as per an early suggestion by carol we can be nicer about presenting results, and let results list include a "nice" display item.
so for eexample you would configure in the goup alias like this:
googleuk $$1 | http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=donationcoder
google $$1 | http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=donationcoder
search all bbc | http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=donationcoder
search bbc news | http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=news&go=homepage&q=donationcoder

now if user types: "wik donationcoder"
they will see in results list:
1. googleuk donationcoder
2. google donationcoder
3. search all bbc
4. search bbc news

and then of course pushing the number button would open the browser and run the search.

what do you guys thing - it seems to perfectly fit with f&r approach and seems like it would really work well.

kfitting:
I second this commotion!  Sounds extremely powerful... and confusing enough to warrent learning about.  A double benefit!

Kevin

mouser:
more on nontroppo's suggestions:
what is super context?

re: modifiers - yep, this will be implemented soon.  good name for it, i will use that name.

control panel searching, i will try to do this.

i am also going to try to add fiefox bookmark searching in the upcoming days.

thumbnail view - i'm going to think this one over a bit.

autocomplete - as you say this is a bit different from the way f&r works, BUT
here's what i've been planning to do for a while.  if there is only 1 result in window, which can especialy happen if you use an alias to say this word means to launch this app/url, then hitting enter should be like what happens if you type '1'.  i think this would solve 90% of what you wanted.  what do you think?

mouser:
anyone see any reason i shouldnt merge the ideas of "group alias" and "regular expression" commands?

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