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Defines a function that perform a search on DuckDuckGo. The results opens in your default browser. Put it in your emacs init file.
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| (defun duckduckgo nil | |
| "Duck Duck Go something." | |
| (interactive) | |
| (let (arg) | |
| (if mark-active | |
| (setq arg (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))) | |
| (setq arg (read-from-minibuffer "Search term: "))) | |
| (browse-url (format "http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s" arg)))) |
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...most of the code is lifted from this google search function: http://www.version2.dk/blog/emacsforum-var-super-sjovt-men-vi-skal-lige-32810#comment-185491