On 2011-07-06 14:19, smclean0640@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am wondering whether anyone in the group knows a package that will
accomplish the following:
- I am on a word, say "limousine", by pressing a keystroke I can browse
this word in google (or a chosen search engine) with my default browser,
- I have selected a region of text and I want to search that text in my
default browser.
Any ideas as to how to most effectively accomplish this? Downloading a
packaged would be ideal, but I am willing to try my hand at elisp.
Stuart
Something like this should google the word at point.
(defun google-word-at-point ()
(interactive)
(let ((word (thing-at-point 'word)))
(if word
(funcall browse-url-browser-function
(concat "http://google.com/"; word))
(error "No word at point!"))))
You can either call this using M-x google-word-at-point RET or bind it
to a suitable key:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'google-word-at-point)
You could extend the function `google-word-at-point' further to check if
`use-region-p' returns non-nil and if so use the region as the "word".
Hope that helps,
Deniz