Support expansion inside of address/URL bar

[GaurangTandon]

Supports limited expansion: any multiline text, rich text is made single line by stripping all \newlines. formatting, etc. But, paste/date macros are completely supported. Variables are supported. Working on the address bar while viewing a blocked site should work.

Feature is useful for people having weird proxy expansions for some reason.

[iWrote]

it's not weird, he's probably playing old games

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Gaurang Tandon [email protected] wrote:

Supports limited expansion: any multiline text, rich text is made single line by stripping all \newlines. formatting, etc. But, paste/date macros are completely supported. Variables are supported. Working on the address bar while viewing a blocked site should work.

Feature is useful for people having weird proxy expansions for some reason.

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[GaurangTandon]

This is the API:

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/omnibox

Key implementation takeaways:

1. we need a keyword. How about "pk" @iWrote ?
2. we can allow the user to type the snip text, then searchSnippets to search for the expected snippet, and then display it as a suggestion.
3. we can richly format the snippet suggestion.
4. when user accepts it, we can expand it inside address bar (though without rich formatting)
5. as stated before, paste/date macros are completely supported. Variables are supported. Working on the address bar while viewing a blocked site should work. Snippets are stripped of \newlines and <br>eaks.

[ammarbinfaisal1]

There should be a way to add something to a general url snippet

like I have a snippet npm -> https://npmjs.org/ so typing pk and then npm would show this url in the dropdown from the address bar and I'll have to click on it to go there.

but what if the snippet body was https://npmjs.org/package/ and I need it to open docs of an npm package?

then writing any thing after npm should be added in the url displayed in the dropdown

Or, as as mdn search extension does that, the dropdown item which I go to using the arrow keys should replace whatever is in the address bar

[GaurangTandon]

Omg how did I miss this. Yes, you are completely right. I'll try to get something ready soon.

[GaurangTandon]

Except that this behavior is exactly what happens currently. So, probably your request got obsoleted.

[ammarbinfaisal1]

this behavior is exactly what happens currently

No, this isn't the current behaviour. Currently the url stored with that snippet name gets opened. I meant there should be a way to attach something in that url. <snippet-name>/<further-address>