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With bangs, I'm getting a new tab in Firefox as well.
What's the output of `echo $BROWSER`?
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What's the output of `echo $BROWSER`?
In my case BROWSER isn't set. And yet ddgr still found my firefox in another workspace and opened a tab on it. I was just wondering if there's a means to force a terminal/text output from something akin to: ddgr \!ety glaucous
As you can see, you can only have it one way (either text or GUI by default) and we kept it the default one.
What’s so good about DDG? I’ve used it a few times but i still don’t get the appeal to it
The no tracking policy, and the large amount of built-in features (such as bang-searches). They also don't make life hard for Tor users with endless captcha (there's even an onion service for DDG).
I find the interface really clunky to use because I need to press enter after every command.
This gets image search results and can be embedded into other projects !
(Ex: If I type in "ip" merely return my IP, not a long list of whois DBs)
Is there a way to supress the search results if I only want an instant answer? (Ex: If I type in "ip" merely return my IP, not a long list of whois DBs)
There are a number of "instant" bangs, though it's not clear if these deliver what you want: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=instant
You can incorporate bang int commandlinee search, though bangs ("!") generally require quoting to avoid bash / shell interpretation.
Is there a way to supress the search results if I only want an instant answer? (Ex: If I type in "ip" merely return my IP, not a long list of whois DBs)
ddgr ip --npI find the interface really clunky to use because I need to press enter after every command.
I think the primary advantages of something like this is more so that it enables you to use it with terminal tools, and from/in other programs (e.g. calling it from vim). There's also the benefit of increased productivity if you want to stay in terminal. It wasn't designed to to be more ergonomic than the browser based one.