Pentadactyl: Search several sites at one command

Question

Consider a problem of searching several wikis at one command. Here's a possible solution. If one'd add the following to the .pentadactylrc:

javascript <<EOF
    dactyl.searchWikis = function (selection) {
        let parsedSelection = selection.replace(/^\s*/, "" ).replace(/\s*$/, "" ).replace(/\s+/g, "+" );
        dactyl.execute( ":tabopen http://www.scholarpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=" + selection);
        dactyl.execute( ":tabopen http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Search&search=" + selection);
    };
EOF

:command wikiSearch -nargs=* -js dactyl.searchWikis(<args>)

That should've solved it - but the problem is - that this way Pentadactyl doesn't see the JS code. I.e. new command wikiSearch doesn't appear. Can You fix it?

Answer 1

I believe you need to add your function on the userContext, rather than on dactyl.

e.g.

javascript <<EOF
    userContext.searchWikis = function (selection) {
        commands.execute("tabopen http://www.scholarpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=" + selection);
        commands.execute("tabopen http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Search&search=" + selection);
    };
EOF

I took the parsedSelection line out, as selection doesn't appear to come in as a string.

Also try removing the angle-brackets from <args>:

command wikiSearch -nargs=* -js userContext.searchWikis(args)