ZSH Web Search

November 8, 2024 · View on GitHub

A web search plugin for ZSH.

Installation

Clone this repository to your local machine.
Add the following line to your .zshrc file:

source /path/to/zsh-web-search/zsh-web-search.zsh

Restart your terminal or source your .zshrc file.

Usage

To perform a web search, simply type web_search followed by your search query and press Enter. The plugin will open your default web browser and perform the search using the specified search engine.
```
    web_search google zsh
```
If there is no parameter of searching keywords, it will open the homepage of the search engine.
```
    web_search google
```
To make it more efficient, you can set aliases for the search engines you use most frequently. For example, you can add the following lines to your .zshrc or zsh-web-search.zsh file:
```
    alias google='web_search google'
    alias bing='web_search bing'
```
Now, you can use google and bingas aliases for the corresponding search engines.
```
    google zsh
    bing zsh
```

Customization

To add more search engines, you can add them to the zsh-web-search.zsh file. For example, to add the parameter for GitHub, add the entry to this Associative Array:

    declare -A search_url_arr=(
        ...
        ["github"]="https://github.com/search?q="
        ...
    )

TODO

Change alias and variables. Prevent from confusing with other shell variables.
Feature to display all the support search engines.