spacemacs/layers/+web-services/search-engine/README.org

#+TITLE: Search Engine layer

#+TAGS: layer|web service

[[file:img/searchengine.jpg]]

* Table of Contents                     :TOC_5_gh:noexport:
- [[#description][Description]]
  - [[#features][Features:]]
- [[#supported-search-engines][Supported search engines]]
- [[#install][Install]]
- [[#key-bindings][Key bindings]]
- [[#customize-it][Customize it!]]

* Description
This layer adds support for the [[https://github.com/hrs/engine-mode][Search Engine]] package.

** Features:
- Browser search integration

* Supported search engines
- Amazon
- Bing
- Duck Duck Go
- Ecosia
- Google
- Google Images
- GitHub
- Google Maps
- Twitter
- Project Gutenberg
- YouTube
- Stack Overflow
- Spacemacs Issues
- Spacemacs Pull Requests
- Wikipedia
- Wolfram Alpha

* Install
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =search-engine= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.

* Key bindings

| Evil      | Holy    | Command                                   |
|-----------+---------+-------------------------------------------|
| ~SPC a /~ | ~C-c /~ | Summon a Helm buffer to select any engine |

* Customize it!
If you'd rather have emacs use chrome, or firefox or any other thing (=eww=) you
can have that customization. For example for google chrome you can put this in
your =dotspacemacs/user-config=:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
        engine/browser-function 'browse-url-generic
        browse-url-generic-program "google-chrome")
#+END_SRC

Also if you want more search engines, just push them (do this in
=dotspacemacs/user-config=)

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (push '(custom1
           :name "Custom Search Engine 1"
           :url "http://www.domain.com/s/stuff_sutff_remember_to_replace_search_candidate_with_%s")
          search-engine-alist)
#+END_SRC

If you'd rather not use helm but would want a specific search engine, remember
the function generated is always =engine/search-(the name of the search engine
lower-case and hyphen instead-of-spaces-for-separation)= so you can bind that to
any key binding you want.