vim-browser-search

This plugin helps perform a quick web search for the text selected in (Neo)Vim

Installation

Plug 'voldikss/vim-browser-search'

Keymappings

This plugin doesn't supply any default mappings. Here are some recommended key mappings

nmap <silent> <Leader>s <Plug>SearchNormal
vmap <silent> <Leader>s <Plug>SearchVisual

Use cases

• Select text and type <Leader>s to do a web search

• Type <Leader>saw in to search web for a word

• Type <Leader>sa( to search web for the text wrapped in the bracket

• Type <Leader>sas to search web for a sentence

• ...

Variables

g:browser_search_default_engine

Defaut: 'google'

g:browser_search_engines

Default:

  {
  \ 'baidu':'https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=UTF-8&wd=%s',
  \ 'bing': 'https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s',
  \ 'duckduckgo': 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s',
  \ 'github':'https://github.com/search?q=%s',
  \ 'google':'https://google.com/search?q=%s',
  \ 'stackoverflow':'https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%s',
  \ 'translate': 'https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=it&text=%s',
  \ 'wikipedia': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s',
  \ 'youtube':'https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&page=&utm_source=opensearch',
  \ }

Commands

:BrowserSearch [text]

Search text with engine, if text is not given, use the word under cursor.

Also, you can use this command in visual mode, i.e., :'<,'>BrowserSearch