Sadly, Alcor is not able to actively develop QS right now.  However,
you can email him and ask for access to the source code for the
plugin.

On Aug 30, 9:34 pm, mason k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The web search plugin module should parse out newline characters and
> replace them with space characters instead.  Some web search engines
> will chomp at the newline character and only search the first line of
> a string.  I can't think of a usage case where a user will have
> included multiple lines in a search string but only want the first
> line to be searched.  I also can't think of a search that behaves
> differently when it receives a multi line search than when it receives
> an all-spaces search (except when it is chomping at the newline).
>
> I'll give an example of where this could be a problem.  I set up a
> google maps web search bookmark.  I think it would be really nifty if
> I could drill into contacts from my Address Book and get their address
> -> Find With... -> Google Maps Quicksearch Bookmark and see their
> address.  However when I do this, it only maps the first line of the
> address which is not enough to get a pin on the map.  Similarly I
> might want to cmd-esc a two line address from a website into a google
> maps web search, but I can't, because google maps chomps at the
> newline.  Amazon.com's search also chomps at the newline, as do most
> other searches that I tried.  The only two I found that can handle
> newlines in their searches are Google and Wikipedia.
>
> Eh, where do I send this bug?  I couldn't find a bug tracker on
> blacktree.

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