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W3M Prefix Search Engines Searches Using FZF and Surfraw

improving w3m by having a quick way to search multiple search engines or even custom search engines via the power of surfraw elvi

tutorial video: Link | update Link
offical website: Link

tags: linux w3m omnibar address bar quick w3m smart search fzf fuzzy finder surfraw tmux workaround current url

install requirements

w3m surfraw fzf gawk coreutils grep (xsel or tmux)

install scripts to root directory

Download at root-cgi-bin

# save it to 

/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_clipboard_primary.cgi
/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_clipboard.cgi
/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_tmux_clipboard.cgi

chmod +x <script.cgi>

install script to local directory

Download at cgi-bin

# save it to 

~/.w3m/cgi-bin/fzf_surfraw.cgi

chmod +x <script.cgi>

configuration

vim ~/.w3m/keymap

# for x sessions
keymap  xs      COMMAND "READ_SHELL ~/.w3m/cgi-bin/fzf_surfraw.cgi ; BACK ; GOTO /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_clipboard_primary.cgi ; REDRAW"
keymap  XS      COMMAND "READ_SHELL ~/.w3m/cgi-bin/fzf_surfraw.cgi ; BACK ; TAB_GOTO /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_clipboard_primary.cgi ; REDRAW"

# for tmux users
# keymap  xs      COMMAND "READ_SHELL ~/.w3m/cgi-bin/fzf_surfraw.cgi ; BACK ; GOTO /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_tmux_clipboard.cgi ; REDRAW"
# keymap  XS      COMMAND "READ_SHELL ~/.w3m/cgi-bin/fzf_surfraw.cgi; BACK ; TAB_GOTO /usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/goto_tmux_clipboard.cgi ; REDRAW"

set the default open-url to current url

sed -i 's:default_url.*:default_url 1:g' ~/.w3m/config

usage example

$ w3m google.com
then press xs or XS to use surfraw for smart search

references

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