philc / philc/vimium

Tab no longer opens completions for custom search engines

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Description

Describe the bug

Assume a custom search engine (CSE).

Previously, immediately after opening the vomnibar with a CSE, <Tab> would expand the vomnibar with the most-recent searches on that search engine. This made it super easy to repeat (or edit) a recent search.

This no longer works.

To Reproduce

g: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s Google

and

map sg Vomnibar.activate keyword=g

To replicate... sg, then in (empty) vomnibar <Tab>.

Nothing happens.

The vomnibar would previously have been populated with previous Google searches.

Browser and Vimium version

117.0.5938.157
Vimium 2.0.4

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue with the custom search engine definition and map sg Vomnibar.activate keyword=g, then press Tab in the empty vomnibar. Trace the Vomnibar.activate path and the Tab handling for recent custom-search-engine queries; done means Tab again shows the most-recent searches as described.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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