#yasearch

~Because everybody needs their own web-search Emacs function~

Search the word under point or region on the web.

If you use Doom Emacs, just use its builtin +lookup/online.

#Install

#straight.el

(straight-use-package '(yasearch :type git :repo "https://git.sr.ht/~kisaragi_hiu/yasearch"))

#Manually

Put yasearch.el under your load-path, then (require 'yasearch) in your init file.

#Use

• yasearch engine query: lookup query with engine. Interactively, ask to select engine from yasearch-engine-alist; query is taken from

  • the active region, if there is one,
  • the word at point, or
  • a prompt, in this order; a prompt will always be used if a prefix argument is given.

• yasearch-evil: an evil motion to search word objects with yasearch. This needs to be required seperately: (require 'yasearch-evil) Bind this to your preferred keys in normal state, say gs. Now gsiW asks you which search engine to use, then searches the WORD at point (iW) with it.

#Customize

yasearch-engine-alist: An alist mapping search engines with their query URLs.

Each item is a cons cell mapping the engine's name as a symbol and the query URL. Example:

'((google . "https://google.com/search?q=%s")
  (duckduckgo . "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s"))

#Other packages

• emacs-google-this
• tomoya/search-web.el
• xuchunyang/web-search.el: shell support, search providers can be custom functions, default
• alezost/web-search.el: add/delete functions, web-search-engine-name definer
• xah-lookup.el: xah-lookup-google etc. functions, C-h 1 ~ C-h 6 bindings, word02051
• webjump: [simple-query "google.com" "google.com/search?q=" ""], search providers can be custom functions; builtin since Emacs 20