vim-ddgpb

This plugin with it's horrible name does two things:

Search DuckDuckGo from Vim (in system GUI browser or in a tmux pane using w3m)
- With word under the cursor
- with visual selection
Submit the visual selection to 0x0.st pastebin

Dependency

This plugin doesn't depend on anything other than the xdg-open, curl and Vim9 or newer.

However, if you want to use a terminal browser for your search, you should also get tmux and w3m browser. Naturally you must be in a tmux session for those functions to work.

This plugin is written in vim9script and therefore requires Vim 9.0+.
You can check wether your Vim has vim9script support with echo has('vim9script').
If Vim returns 1, then you have what this plugin needs.

Install vim-ddgpb

use your favorite plugin manager,
or:

git clone https://github.com/wolandark/vim-ddgpb.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-ddgpb

or for on-demand loading of the plugin:

git clone https://github.com/wolandark/vim-ddgpb.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/opt/vim-ddgpb

for on-deman loading do:

:packadd vim-ddgpb

Usage

Put your cursor on a word and press the <F3> key to search duckduckgo for the word under the cursor.

Put your cursor on a word and press the <F4> key to search duckduckgo for the word under the cursor in a tmux pane using w3m terminal browser.

Select visually and press <F7> to search duckduckgo for the content of the visual selection.

Select visually and press <F8> to search duckduckgo for the content of the visual selection in a tmux pane using w3m terminal browser.

Select visually and press <F12> to submit the content of the visual selection to 0x0.st pastebin service.

DDG() and DDGV()

DDGT() and DDGVT()

vokoscreenNG-2024-07-22_02-46-57.mp4

Binit()

Here I'm using tmux-fzf-url plugin in tmux to access the url and open it in the browser directly.

However vim-ddgpb copies the url to the plus register by default. So you can paste it anywhere.

you can always get the link from :messages too

For example:

:redir @a | 1messages | redir END

to send the last msg to the a register.

wolandark/vim-ddgpb