Tip: #833 - Check spelling and phrases using Google search
Created: December 14, 2004 16:36 Complexity: basic Author: http://mixedvolume.blogspot.com Version: 6.0 Karma: -1/16 Imported from: Tip#833
I started hacking vim + google apis yesterday to do phrase lookups
on google. Google is much better (but
slower than a dictionary) as a contextual speller/data verifier.
However here is something readymade by Danny O'Brien, from
http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/04/16#1050554820
In your .vimrc, add these lines:
" ,g - create google a href for word under cursor
map ,g <Esc>Bm`:r!ghref <cword><CR>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<esc>dw
vmap ,g yvgvdm`:r!ghref '<C-R>=substitute(@0, "['\n]", " ", "g")<cr>'<cr>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<Esc>
Now put this program somewhere in your PATH, saved as "ghref"
#!/usr/bin/python
##
# ghref - takes a string on command line, looks it up in google, outputs
# the HTML for a hyperlink to the "I'm feeling lucky" URL
##
import google
import sys
import re
def main(argv):
search=argv[0]
data = google.doGoogleSearch(search)
if (data.results[0].summary):
title = data.results[0].summary
else:
title = data.results[0].title
title = re.sub('</*b>',,title)
print '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>' % (data.results[0].URL, title, argv[0])
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv[1:])