haskell-dmenu-search

dmenu script for searching the web with customizable search engines.

Runtime Dependencies: dmenu or dmenu2.

Installation: Either get the sources from this repository, or from hackage.

Usage:

• dmenu-search [OPTIONS] [-- DMENUOPTIONS]

  Let's the user choose a search engine and enter a search string by spawning two subsequent dmenu processes, and opens the resulting URL in a browser.

  All arguments, after the first -- argument, are directly passed to dmenu.

Options:

• -b, --browser CMD

  Shell command to open url in browser. Default: chromium -new-window

• -e, --engine NAME URLPREFIX

  Add a search engine, e.g.

  -e google https://www.google.com/search?q=
  -e github https://github.com/search?q=
  

• -E, --engine-file PATH

  Add search engines from a file.

  The following shows example content of an engine file:

  google
  https://www.google.com/search?q=
  
  github
  https://github.com/search?q=
  

The application is build with the dmenu Haskell bindings, which support customizing the dmenu commandline options in a configuration file.