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#+title: Auto-suggestions for DuckDuckGo in Conkeror
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#+filetags: conkeror, config, javascript
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#+date: <2014-06-03 Tue 22:08>
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#+exclude_tags: summary
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Recently [[https://duckduckgo.com][DuckDuckGo]] gave its UI a big overhaul. One of the new parts of the UI is the auto-suggestions, which are pretty cool, especially when working with `!bang` syntax. I want that in my conkeror webjump! So I started looking...
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Turns out that [[http://conkeror.org][Conkeror]] can work with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch][OpenSearch]] descriptions to create webjumps and actually already has a DuckDuckGo OpenSearch XML file. However, DuckDuckGo has a newer version of that file.
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So, for starters you should download the proper XML [[https://duckduckgo.com/opensearch.xml][file]]. After this, you can replace the =/usr/share/conkeror/search-engines/duckduckgo.xml= file[fn:1] with the newly downloaded one and you'd be done, ready to use the new auto-suggest functionality[fn:2].
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If, however, you don't like overwriting your package's files because they may get overwritten again in the future[fn:3] or you really don't think it's proper, you can also create a custom webjump that does the same thing, which is what I did.
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In case you are following my lead, first we'd need to put the downloaded XML file somewhere. I suggest =~/.conkerorrc/search-engines= because that way everything in your configuration stays nice and contained, although you might want to put it in your =~/.conkeror.mozdev.org/conkeror/CODE.PROFILE/search-engines=, where =CODE= is an eight-character alphanumeric sequence (as far as I can tell) and =PROFILE= is the name of the profile you use[fn:4], because that should already be included in your =opensearch_load_paths=.
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If you put the XML in your =.conkerorrc= you'll need to add that directory to your =opensearch_load_paths=, so put something like the following in your =init.js=, or whichever filename you use for your conkeror init:
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#+begin_src js
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opensearch_load_paths.push(make_file("~/.conkerorrc/search-engines"));
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#+end_src
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After Conkeror knows where to find your custom search engine specifications you can create a webjump for it:
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#+begin_src js
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define_opensearch_webjump("ddg", "ddg.xml");
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#+end_src
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Once you evaluate these lines or restart your Conkeror, you should have a =ddg= webjump with auto-suggestion. Yay!
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* Auto-suggestions for DuckDuckGo in Conkeror :summary:
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Recently [[https://duckduckgo.com][DuckDuckGo]] gave its UI a big overhaul. One of the new parts of the UI is the auto-suggestions, which are pretty cool, especially when working with `!bang` syntax. I want that in my conkeror webjump! So I started looking...
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* Footnotes
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[fn:1] I have Conkeror installed in =/usr=, so if you have it installed somewhere else your path will be different.
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[fn:2] You might have to restart Conkeror first, I didn't test it without restarting.
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[fn:3] This can of course happen when, for example, your package manager updates your Conkeror installation.
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[fn:4] The default profile is named (appropriately) =default=.
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