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Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

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In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment.

Please let us know if you see anymore issues.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

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Anyone remember Google shell [ http://goosh.org/ ], similar idea. Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS. That way I can interleave my unix dweebry with outputs that use a modern display language.

> Now what I really want is an xterm that can render HTML/CSS. Have a look at https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

That one actually looked like a semi-poor copy of PowerShell (the concept, not the official console host application), funnily enough ;-)

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#83

In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment. Please let us know if you see anymore issues.

any chance you could get the URLs to behave like links?

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#84

I think this might be more useful the other way around. Put ddg inside a linux shell and let me interoperate with linux commands. eg. ddg reviews samsung note | grep "note 2"

There's a unix utility called "surfraw" that does this. I don't know if it support DDG yet, but it's very cool.

All surfraw seems to do is generate the URL for the search and opens it in a browser. Disappointing :(

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

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Can you please point us to that article? Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817466 Prakash, Thanks for clarifying. Might sound like stereotyping, I apologize if it does. Looking at your name, just asking if you guys have a office in India? What sort of problems are you working on?

Yup, no offices in India, but contractors are distributed worldwide and work over the wire. :)

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#86
Is this any more useful than a normal web search?

Google Search (with Instant Search enabled) has had keyboard navigation for a long time. After you hit enter on a search, hit tab and you can navigate the results with your arrow keys. And when you go to Google's homepage your cursor is automatically placed in the Search box, so you can search Google with only a keyboard.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

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post #83

In addition to the mixed content issue on Chrome, I've pushed out a fix for the tab completion component. It too inherently suffers from mixed content because our autocomplete server only does HTTP at the moment. Please let us know if you see anymore issues.

any chance you could get the URLs to behave like links?

You mean wrap them in ?

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

#88
I'm hoping that Github and DDG convince more websites to have some kind of command interface, as it's really my favorite mode of interaction.

I get that the current look is the stereotypical "hacker" style terminal, but none of my terminals have such a small font or high contrast coloring :(

Ctrl + doesn't seem to increase the font size, either.

Re: DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

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There's a unix utility called "surfraw" that does this. I don't know if it support DDG yet, but it's very cool.

All surfraw seems to do is generate the URL for the search and opens it in a browser. Disappointing :(

I just got it installed and quite like it. It may not give you interactive search capabilities, but it DOES support DuckDuckGo, and the other "elvi" are quite handy. I now have a quick way of instantly opening Lisp, Java and other language docs in the terminal, and jumping straight to wikipedia articles in w3m.
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