Terminal Search

This project was created with the aim of solving a simple problem, but persistent in my daily life: frequent searches. The extent to which it takes place the activities of a programmer, certain distinct, unknown terms -- frequent or not --, appear.

In order to extinguish the monotonous process of copying the term, open the browser in your favorite search engine, it would be very convenient to simply select and activate a key combination. With this in mind, this project was created.

Is it a silly thing? Probably, but this was created just for me to expand my Rust skills

Summary

• Configuration;
• Usage;

Configuration

For the program to work, all you need to do is download the executable, place it in a location of your choice and, if you wish - for ease of use - add it to your environment variable. You can also create a keyboard shortcut for the executable in order to run it by the following command:

./search

Usage

Explanation

Commands

• The list command will list the search engines configured in the .search_config.yaml file located on your home directory under folder .search.

• default will show the default search engine defined in the ~/.search_config.yaml file;

• set-default will set the default search engine based on the name passed as an argument;

• add will add a new search engine based on the values passed as an argument, they are:

  • NAME, name of the search engine;
  • URL_PATTERN, the search engine URL pattern;
  • PATTERN, the pattern that should be replaced in URL_PATTERN;
  • REGEX, the regex that will be applied to the string before the replacement is made;
  • REPLACEMENT, the value by which the regex will be replaced in the search term;

  search add google https://www.google.com/search?q={{term}} {{term}} \\s+ +

This will add the Google search engine with the url pattern https://www.google.com/search?q={{term}} and when you call the executable to use this search engine, it will replace {{term}} with the search term applying the regex \s+ and replacing the matches with +, that is, 'sla something' becomes 'sla+something' before to be replaced in the url pattern.

• remove, removes a search engine based on name or in your uuid, if the --uuid flag is passed;

Argument

• TERM the search term;

Flags

• --engine specifies the search engine to be used based on the name;

Solving problems

If you have any problems, open an issue posting the last lines of ~/.search.log;

Future changes

• Subcommand to edit configuration file;
• Using journal;
• Increased fault tolerance;
• Verification of manual editing in the configuration file, creation of correction and validation suggestions;
• Incognito mode;