On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:47:49AM +0100, Johnny wrote:
> "John J. Foerch" <jjfoe...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:14:14PM +0100, Johnny wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> I have just started to look into webjumps, and wonder if someone has a
> >> clever way to e.g. look up a movie title in imdb? Something like select
> >> a link or text, then directly search for it in imdb?
> >>
> >> Basically, I /borrowed/ the idea from conkerorwiki to use simply
> >> : define_webjump("imdb", "http://imdb.com/find?q=%s";);
> >>
> >> It would be great to have the search string inserted by default!
> >>
> >> cheers!
> >
> > Maybe this:
> >
> > http://conkeror.org/Tips#SelectionSearches
>
> Thanks John, this is excellent!
>
> Only one problem, IMDB does not recognise the escape symbols (%20) and
> searches for the literally. Is there any way to avoid this?
>
> (Wikipedia interprets these as expected though)
>
> Regards
>
You could use a function webjump instead. They probably expect spaces to
be encoded as plusses. This is really an imdb problem; conkeror is doing
the right thing.
--
John Foerch
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