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

[Mark Skilbeck]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:15:58PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Mark Skilbeck dixit:
> 
> >Jump URLs. For example, if I have a Jump defined as:
> >
> >  <dd>dgg<dt><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?s=%s";>DuckDuckGo search</a>,
> 
> I’m just calling it from the shell:
> 
> ddg() {               # DuckDuckGo Search
>       ${BROWSER:-lynx} 
> "https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&kl=wt-wt&kb=t&kh=1&kj=g2&km=l&ka=monospace&ku=1&ko=s&k1=-1&kv=1&q=$*";
> }
> 
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
> FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
> *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
> ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
> wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh

How does that handle encoding the query?

I'd still argue that including this in the Jump files keeps configuration
clean and centralised.