I have no idea when or how I would ever need to use this beyond all the Firefox shortcuts I already have...but I have to say it's pretty damn cool. Slick UI, too.
Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell
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#12Latest in "time sink" technology!
Love it.
Another timeout below:
guest@goosh.org:/web> = Error: Operation timed out (1212424763266).
Re: Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell
#13Anyone know how how to make an "extension"? Help says: load load an extension
"You can see an example module at http://goosh.org/ext/spon.js"
Re: Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell
#14This is really cool, but you can set search shortcuts in Opera (and the other browsers too). Eg. I type 's xyz' to google search xyz. I have tons of other search shortcuts, like e for ebay, a for amazon, i for imdb, m for mininova, y for youtube, etc.
For my Firefox keywords, I have g for google search, map for google maps, gis for google image search, imdb for guess what, w for wikipedia search, py for local python module documentation lookup, modindex to flatly take me to the local python module index, def for google define, dict for dictionary.com, doc for local docs, and yt for youtube search.
Between that and having the left Windows-key bound to "Start a new terminal", I'm never more than a few keystrokes away from my thoughts.
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#15To everyone who is listing google time out errors - this is in beta. 0.4.1-beta #1
I think it's an interesting idea. I like the idea of being able to use something like this when I'm on a "foreign" computer. Like a computer at my parents, friends or at school. By providing a web front end you don't HAVE to be on your perfectly configured box at home...
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#16This is really cool, but you can set search shortcuts in Opera (and the other browsers too). Eg. I type 's xyz' to google search xyz. I have tons of other search shortcuts, like e for ebay, a for amazon, i for imdb, m for mininova, y for youtube, etc.
For my Firefox keywords, I have g for google search, map for google maps, gis for google image search, imdb for guess what, w for wikipedia search, py for local python module documentation lookup, modindex to flatly take me to the local python module index, def for google define, dict for dictionary.com, doc for local docs, and yt for youtube search. Between that and having the left Windows-key bound to "Start a new…
That's brilliant! I didn't know about Firefox keywords until now. Thanks!
Re: Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell
#17The really cool thing is that you can search and bring up the result sites without a mouse (or any mousless browsing extensions).
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#18It's cool as a programming exercise, but I just can't see it being useful for me. If it can do something else, that might be cool, but it can't do much. ^k and dictionary bookmarks in firefox are far superior to using that shell.
Dictionary bookmarks, for all those unaware, are a beautiful feature I rarely hear about. For example, go to en.wikipedia.org and right click inside the search text box on the left. Click on 'Add a keyword for this search.' For name, put anything, for keyword i have 'w'. Now, whenever you are in the address bar (ctrl+l or alt+d to get there in windows/linux, apple+l in os x) you just type 'w plants' to get the wikipedia page on plants.
Go and try it, type ctrl+l, 'w firefox', enter. I almost can't live without it. And the same works for anything else, so google news can be 'gn', google images: 'gi', etc thus making that more useful goosh. goosh doesn't even have any of the features you'd want from a *nix shell like redirection.
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#19If you like this then you'll probably like mudsh ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186849 ).
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#20best thing I've seen around here in a while. I like it.