When I do as directed I get "site:jsoftware.com %s" in the search bar .. I then 
need to backspace the "s" before entering "j copula locale" .. then it works.

David 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raul Miller
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:55
To: General forum
Subject: [Jgeneral] j firefox searches


I just noticed something in firefox that seems handy.

If I use the "Organize Bookmarks" option, there's a "Quick Searches" folder, 
where each bookmark also has a keyword.  Apparently, if you enter that keyword 
into the location bar, anything that follows get substituted into that bookmark 
in place of the %s you can put into the bookmark itself.

More specifically, if you use "New Bookmark" from this window, you can create 
bookmarks like this (you don't have to put them in the Quick Searches folder, 
but neatness seems to suggest that they should go there if that's their 
purpose).

So, for example, I created a new bookmark andd gave it the properties:

Name: J software

Location: http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+%s

Keyword: j

Description: Type "j <stuff>" in the location bar to search jsoftware's site

And, now, I can type   j copula locale   in the location bar, and get a list
of relevant J pages...

I've also created a jhelp keyworded bookmark with location 
http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+inurl:help+%s
and a jdict keyworded bookmark with location 
http://google.com/search?q=site:jsoftware.com+inurl:dictionary+%s

I have also thought about make a jwiki, but frankly most of the time I'm 
interested in the wiki I am also interested in anything anywhere else on J's 
site.  More useful to me would be if I could figure out a reliable way to 
search for J programming related content on other sites...

FYI,

-- 
Raul
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