Feature requests

September 13, 2006

You can use this post to make feature requests or point out bugs that you find.

 (I’ll update the timestamp so this post will always be near the top)

Posted by visearch
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10 Responses to “Feature requests”

  1. Jonathan Lassoff Says:

    September 8, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    So far I’ve been having a lot of fun with visearch. It’s been pretty quick and intutive for someone like me that uses vi for smaller tasks like editing configs.
    One qualm I do have is a feature that google uses that saves just a fraction of a second of time, but a lot of headache: autofocusing the cursor in the search box. I believe that google just uses a simple chunk of javascript to place the focus in the search box onLoad.
    Otherwise, it’s been pretty cool. Thanks.

  2. visearch Says:

    September 8, 2006 at 4:07 pm

    I’ve actually been avoiding autofocusing on the search box.
    When I make a page my homepage, sometimes as I open up the browser I want to go to a url right away. But if the page autofocuses on the search box, it steals the focus away from the location bar as the page loads up.
    Maybe I’ll make it configurable with
    :set autofocus/:set noautofocus

    Thanks for the feedback!

  3. gerard Says:

    September 22, 2006 at 2:51 am

    Hi all,

    First: a brilliant piece of work the visearch site!!!

    No clue if this can be easily done but …

    I’ve tried the site with textbrowser lynx en w3m since these run in a terminal which afterall is what vi lover consider home … :-)

    My findings:

    - Lynx (2.8.5rel.1) does not support frames so searching is not possible.
    - 3wm does but working the frames is not that ‘easy’ (and possible).

    IMHO I can’t say whether the following items are ‘nice to have’ or ‘a must’ but it would be great to have a frameless version so you can run it from a terminal/text browser.

    And therewith map it into the actual vi editor since you can run shell commands from within vi as wel.

    Something like:

    —–
    Hello World!
    ~
    ~
    :!lynx visearch.com/main.php?SearchTheWorld
    —–

    Just spilled some of my brain contents in this post.

    Kind Regards,

    Gerard.

    P.S. Sorry my website is still only in dutch

  4. luis G Says:

    September 25, 2006 at 7:45 am

    I need a command to open a new tab instead of opening window, I’m using mozilla
    Also, how can I view the number of total results in my search page.

    thanks,keep up the good work
    bye

  5. Nate Says:

    November 27, 2006 at 8:57 pm

    First off, great site. You have a new fan.

    For some reason none of the EX commands (:help, :about, :set) work in Firefox on MacOS X. I tested with Firefox on FreeBSD and they work fine. Any ideas?

  6. visearch Says:

    November 28, 2006 at 6:11 pm

    Thanks Nate!

    Coded up a work around for Firefox on MacOS X. The commands with ‘:’ should work now.

  7. Nate Says:

    December 1, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    They do indeed. Thanks!

  8. Kent Says:

    January 12, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Great site!!!

    If only you guys could also implement Google Suggest (http://labs.google.com/suggest). If so I would definitely use your search all the time!!!

    On to a problem. When I do a “:w” it says the query name and number of lines written. Where does it save this info? My first thought was the file system…can’t find the search name on the fs. Then I thought in your cookie. I only saw ss for maybe saved search??? I am running Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP.

    Thanks

  9. John Says:

    February 22, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    Great site!

    Is this still being actively developed? How do you get back search results that you have deleted?

  10. visearch Says:

    February 22, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    Thanks John,

    I’ve been making little changes here and there, but have been busy working on other projects recently.

    To get back search results you have deleted, you can clear your saved search by clicking clear, or typing :clear


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