Re: browse select text, text at point

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-07-06 14:19, smclean0640@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering whether anyone in the group knows a package that will
> accomplish the following:
> - I am on a word, say "limousine", by pressing a keystroke I can browse
>    this word in google (or a chosen search engine) with my default browser,
> - I have selected a region of text and I want to search that text in my
>    default browser.
>
> Any ideas as to how to most effectively accomplish this? Downloading a
> packaged would be ideal, but I am willing to try my hand at elisp.
>
> Stuart

Something like this should google the word at point.


(defun google-word-at-point ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((word (thing-at-point 'word)))
    (if word
        (funcall browse-url-browser-function
                 (concat "http://google.com/"; word))
      (error "No word at point!"))))

You can either call this using M-x google-word-at-point RET or bind it 
to a suitable key:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'google-word-at-point)

You could extend the function `google-word-at-point' further to check if 
`use-region-p' returns non-nil and if so use the region as the "word".

Hope that helps,
Deniz