vim-searchon-go

What is does:

1. provides a set of mappings to search for custom text, text under cursor and visually selected text;
2. provides search on Google, Youtube;

Mappings:

<leader>sgg -> Searchon Google Go (goes into command mode and waits for input)
<leader>sgw -> Searchon Google Word under cursor
<leader>sg  -> Searchon Google visually selected text
<leader>syg -> Searchon Youtube Go (goes into command mode and waits for input)
<leader>syw -> Searchon Youtube Word under cursor
<leader>sy  -> Searchon Youtube visually selected text

Mapping mnemonics:

• first letter (s) stands for "searchon"
• second letter (g, y) indicates the name of the target (ex: Youtube)
• third letter (g, w) stands for "go", word under cursor or (if missing) the visually selected words

What it requires:

1. OSX
2. Google Chrome

How does it look:

When a search is issued, a new tab is created in Google Chrome and a link with the specific search query is loaded.

What is the motivation:

In a vim environment that involves a lot of online text searches (ex: error messages, function names, etc.) or just to find out a nice song on Youtube to help with the programming flow :], a mechanism in which a command triggered in vim goes directly to the target webpage is quite liberating.

So, instead of:

1. copy text in vim
2. open Google Chrome
3. create new tab in Google Chrome
4. navigate to Google
5. paste
6. enter

with vim-searchon-go, the process becomes:

1. select text in vim
2. press \sg

(where "\" is the default leader key in vim).

How to install:

Vundle
Plugin 'mihaicristiantanase/vim-searchon-go'

vim-plug
Plug 'mihaicristiantanase/vim-searchon-go'

Pathogen
git clone https://github.com/mihaicristiantanase/vim-searchon-go ~/.vim/bundle/vim-searchon-go