Re: w3m-search-engine-alist should put the search string consistently first

[Naohiro Aota <naota@xxxxxxxxx>]

jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>>>>>> "NA" == Naohiro Aota <naota@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> NA> The query stayed at end of URL so it was easy to move the cursor to the
> NA> words using "C-e" and edit them. Now it's annoying to move the cursor to
> NA> the query words.
> OK, then all the %s should all be at the end. emacs-w3m should just be
> consistent about it whatever it does...
> Also e.g., (w3m-search "google news-en" "nurds") ends up making two calls,
>   *  http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=utf-8&q=nurds&oe=utf-8
>   *  http://news.google.com/news/section?hl=en&ie=utf-8&q=nurds&oe=utf-8&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&js=0
> maybe the links should be re-researched to guess and just call the final
> Google link.

Will do. and some search engines are broken (e.g. All the Web) :(

> However "such long links should be tested on narrow screens" too.

Is that really necessary? I think most search engines show its query on
the search result page. Also you can see it using "g" and "C-e" (if the
query is at bottom) "Location: " line at top of the page can be easily
hiden when you just scroll one line.