Lyle wrote: > Hi All, > I read of a really useful firefox hack the other day which I've been > using an awful lot since. It's saved me a lot of time, but I can't for > the life of me remember where I read about it... I'm sure it was a book > review or something? :-\ > > Anyway, in firefox do:- > Bookmarks->Organise Bookmarks > Then click on 'Bookmarks Menu', right click on the right pane and select > 'New Bookmark'. > > Call it 'CPAN search', put the location as > 'http://search.cpan.org/search?query=%s&mode=all' and most importantly > set the keywork to 'cpan' (This is why we're adding through Organise > Bookmarks rather than just add bookmark). > > Now you can easily search cpan. Just type 'cpan MODULE' in the address bar. > > You can of course use this same hack for any number of sites that have > the search term in the query string.
This and many other similar packs are in chapter one of "Perl Hacks". I highly recommend it. Dave... _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
