Keyword bookmarks: Just better

First, I just want to say, that keyword bookmarks are definitely the coolest thing since sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. If you have never used one, get ready!

Go into Organize Bookmarks, create a new one (can be hidden in a new folder, you don’t need to view and click on these, as you will see). Try out the following:

Now, you can open a tab and type “wiki all your base” to get that informative Wikipedia article. The general principle: You have some site with things you regularly want, and then are available via sensible URLs. You can copy a representative one and change your search term to “%s” which will insert in that variable whatever you type after the keyword! I like to add these for Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, and more. It’s quicker and easier than using the specific engine in your Google Searchbar. And you can add these for all sorts of things that don’t have engines for the Searchbar, and even add things that don’t even have searches on their sites!

Here are others I like:

RFC
Purpose: Look for related RequestForComment pages
Location: http://www.rfcsearch.org/rfcsearch?query=%s
Keyword: rfc
Python docs
Purpose: Look for something in the latest Python docs
Location: http://docs.python.org/search.html?q=%s
Keyword: py
Python modules
Purpose: Lookup a module in the latest Python docs
Location: http://docs.python.org/library/%s.html#module-%s
Keyword: pym
man pages
Purpose: Do “man command” to lookup info, just like on a Linux box! This way you can check on commands you don’t have on a box, for example.
Location: http://man.he.net/?topic=%s&section=all
Keyword: man
Trac
Purpose: Search within tickets and wiki pages in a Trac site
Location: https://your.trac.site/yourproject/search?q=%s&noquickjump=1&wiki=on&ticket=on
Keyword: trac
Purpose: Search only within wiki pages in a Trac site
Location: https://your.trac.site/yourproject/search?q=%s&noquickjump=1&wiki=on
Keyword: tracw

Remember, you can add one of these for any sort of URL that has a structure you can easily guess. Things like “http://some.lamesite.com/junk.098098098.aspx” won’t be very amenable, for example.

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