Feature request: search for selection
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Vrome (the other vim plugin chrome) has an interesting implementation of the "super-star" from Vim: it searches for the active selection in the default search engine, i.e. when you select some text and hit "*" a new tab with a google search is opened with the selection as the search string.
I find it is super handy!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating Vimium's selection handling, the "" key command, and default search-engine tab-opening logic; done means selecting text and pressing "" opens a new tab searching for that selection.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100