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zimocode / smartup

A customizable web browser mouse gestures extension with a variety of actions.
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possible? or useful feature 🙏 #211

Open tockschmock opened 2 years ago

tockschmock commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to define Text drags opening various searches?

drag up: searches the text in Google drag down: searches the text in wikipedia ....

https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/

zimocode commented 2 years ago

I don't understand what you want express.

tockschmock commented 2 years ago

the link explains, how to set up custom searches in Chrome for example typing "wp shark" into the address bar opens "shark" in Wikipedia with the appropriate definition for WP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s) it would be great, if such custom searches could be assigned to text drags

zimocode commented 2 years ago

  1. for now, add search engines : image

  2. and ,then choose the engine from actions: image

tockschmock commented 2 years ago

... great That works for Simple (text) Drags as well as for Mouse Gestures/Actions for the selected text

Since I have 10 search options defined for texts (Wikipedia, Google, Prices, Translations, ...) this makes the issue of memorizing that many gesture patterns even more pressing. I provided some thoughts here: https://github.com/zimocode/smartup/issues/204#issue-1147279604

Without a quick access to an gestures overview ("master gesture" and keyboard shortcut) it is impossible to memorize and efficiently use more than 6-10 gestures. 2022-03-28 22-48-15 PC-B captured