LSL Wiki search comes to Firefox, IE 7

Whether you're a newbie scripter or veteran LSL coder, the LSL Wiki is an indispensable tool. If you're like me, you go to the Wiki page all the time.

Now there's a set of free plug-ins integrating the LSL Wiki right to your browser! With them you can configure LSL Wiki as your browser's search engine, such as for IE 7:

-- LSL Wiki Search on IE7

What's even cooler, on Firefox 2 the plugins feature LSL auto-completion!! Start typing in any function name to the search box (such as "llSetT" and a list of matching suggestions are listed for you. The plugin also understands LSL Wiki sections such as "email" or "communications". Reason enough to upgrade to Firefox 2 if you haven't! (Firefox 1 is also supported, without auto-completion.)

-- Firefox 2 auto-completion example

And that's not all: the plug-ins are mirror-aware. That's right, if the main LSL Wiki is unavailable for any reason, your searches are automatically sent to the mirror site! In some cases it will even rewrite your queries "behind the scenes" so it's mirror-compatible.

On Firefox you can also configure the search into the main location bar (though you don't get the auto-complete benefit that way.) With minor changes the Firefox 1 plugin can also be used with the Mac's OS X Sherlock, however I don't have a Mac so have not tested this aspect yet.

There is also a Google shortcut if you decide to use the tool as the default search provider.

To get started please visit the LSL Wiki Search page. I hope you will find it useful.

All thanks go to Catherine Omega and Thraxis Epsilon for maintaining the wiki and its mirror.

-peekay

ps. If you maintain an up-to-date LSL wiki mirror and would like it to be added to the search tool please let me know.

Cool!! Thanx!!

Wow.


Incredibly useful. Thank you very much for putting this together.

Wow, really nice.

If you use Konqueror as I normally do, you can add the following as a web shortcut which makes it work in a similar way to searching from the location bar in Firefox:

http://targetomega.com/cgi-bin/lslwiki?s=\{@}&Search=Search&mirror=auto

It basically calls the search tool in the same way as your web form does, hope that's ok.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the Konqueror info; I will add it to the page. The Search and mirror params are optional, by the way, so you may leave them out should you wish.

I hope to add full support for the Google Toolbar soon also.

-peekay

This idea is so cool it makes me want to get up and slap myself in the head. Nice work!

I can only say Wow.

I grabbed the Firefox 2 version, as a learner scripter, this is a really nice tool.

Thanks

Ok, this is so cool I can't find the words to describe it!

Thanks for posting this, I've already added it to my Firefox search box.