Can these quicklinks/bangs be put in a lua table or written in a way to avoid the bangs namespacing?

[jgarte]

Can these quicklinks/bangs be put in a lua table or written in a way to avoid the bangs. repetitions namespace?

local bangs = settings.window.search_engines

bangs.d = "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s"
bangs.s = "https://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=%s"
bangs.gh = "https://github.com/search?q=%s"
bangs.w = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s"
bangs.pu = "https://pursuit.purescript.org/search?q=%s"
bangs.lm = "https://search.libremiami.org/searx/search?q=%s"
bangs.mint = "https://www.mint-lang.com/api/modules/Array#%s"
bangs.n = "https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=%s"
bangs.i = "http://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=%s"
bangs.l = "https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/search?query=%s"
bangs.sr = "https://sr.ht/projects?search=%s&sort=recently-updated"
bangs.ns = "https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&query=%s"
bangs.fun = "https://www.funtoo.org/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=1"
bangs.rkt = "https://docs.racket-lang.org/search/index.html?q=%s"
bangs.v = "https://invidious.silkky.cloud/search?q=%s"
bangs.git = "https://git-scm.com/search/results?search=%s"

[taobert]

Well, they are in a table.
You could also assign a single table to settings.window.search_engines if the variable name is distressing you.
Note that this will throw away all values already set in settings.window.search_engines, whereas what you currently have will add to this table (overwriting values if their index is reused).
My list is:

settings = require "settings"
settings.window.search_engines = 
{
    luakit      = "https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues?q=%s",
    duckduckgo  = "http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=debian",
    github      = "https://github.com/search?q=%s",
    google      = "http://google.com/search?q=%s",
    GoogleMaps  = "https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/%s",
    -- google	= "http://www.google.com.au/?cx=013269018370076798483%%3A8eec3papwpi&nojs=1&q=%s",
    -- http://www.google.com/cse?cx=013269018370076798483%3A8eec3papwpi&ie=UTF-8&q=foo&sa=Search&nojs=1
    scholar     = "http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%s",
    imdb        = "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s",
    piratebay   = "http://thepiratebay.org/search/%s",
    wikipedia   = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s",
    AliExpress  = "https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=%s",
    debbugs     = "http://bugs.debian.org/%s",
    sourceforge = "http://sf.net/search/?words=%s",
    OpenWetWare = "http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s",
    netflix     = "http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=%s",
    journal     = "http://primo-direct-apac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?vid=LATROBE&institution=LATROBE&search_scope=All&query=any,contains,%s",
    doi         = "http://misshie.jp/doi2bibtex/doi2bibtex.cgi?id=%s",
    ldoi        = "http://0-dx.doi.org.alpha2.latrobe.edu.au/%s",

    default     = "https://google.com/search?q=%s",
}

[jgarte]

Well, they are in a table.
You could also assign a single table to settings.window.search_engines if the variable name is distressing you.
Note that this will throw away all values already set in settings.window.search_engines, whereas what you currently have will add to this table (overwriting values if their index is reused).

How can I see what is in settings.window.search_engines by default? Do you use the lua repl to introspect it?

[taobert]

The current (as opposed to the default) contents of settings.window.search_engines are at the bottom of luakit://settings (:settings). The default value is set in window.lua.

You could iterate through it to print the contents. I am lazier and use penlight: :lua require('pl.pretty').dump(<table>) which prints to the console. (inspect.lua has also been mentioned for printing tables, but i've not played with it yet; neither of these ship with luakit by default and would need to be installed).