Re: [Lynx-dev] A possible modification to Jumps

[Thorsten Glaser]

Mark Skilbeck dixit:

>> ddg() {              # DuckDuckGo Search
>>      ${BROWSER:-lynx} 
>> "https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&q=$*";
>> }

>How does that handle encoding the query?

The spaces are part of the one argument passed to lynx
(hence the "$*"), and lynx automatically DTRT (most do
when called from the shell like this).

$ ddg möp möp
correctly lets me end up at:
https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&q=m%C3%B6p%20m%C3%B6p

bye,
//mirabilos
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  "Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of shades: cuts out
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