Drupal OpenDNS Shortcuts
23 February 2009 - 9:09pm — Dave Reid
For a while I had been using the OpenSearch browser plugins to help me search Drupal.org, and different versions of the Drupal APIs. But now I have found an even better method using OpenDNS. If you are not using the OpenDNS service already, I highly suggest you do! Not only does it provide fast and reliable DNS lookups, typo correction, and anti-phishing protection, but also a handy little feature called shortcuts, which lets you map a short term to a long URL via the address bar. This feature is pretty identical to FireFox's Smart Keywords, but they will work on any computer and any browser! As a Drupal developer, I have found the following shortcuts very useful to quickly get to certain areas on drupal.org:
d7 http://api.drupal.org/api/search/7/%s
d6 http://api.drupal.org/api/search/6/%s
d5 http://api.drupal.org/api/search/5/%s
dn http://drupal.org/node/%s
dp http://drupal.org/project/%s
dpi http://drupal.org/project/issues/%s
php http://php.net/%s (thanks Freso)So if I type "dpi path_redirect" in my browser's address bar, I will automatically be directed to http://drupal.org/project/issues/path_redirect. Do you have any handy shortcuts that you use? Please comment and share them!
I map
gd http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:drupal.org+%s
for a google search of the drupal site, rather than relying on the built in site search.
Thanks for reminding me about opendns shortcuts.
I've used to define those in the browser, but having switched browsers recently this is becoming a pain.
It took me a while to find out how to make these work on Epiphany. Here's how:
* type about:config
* set the value of 'keyword.URL' to 'http://guide.opendns.com/?url='
I don't think Roger has tried the new Solr search on Drupal.org yet ;-)
It's like you read my mind. I use the exact same d6, d5 and dp shortcuts with Keywurl for Safari.
Awesome! I've been using OpenDNS for a little while now, but I didn't know they had such features. I've been using something similar with Firefox' search engines so far though, but this rocks more! Now I really need get OpenDNS set up on work as well... =)
Anyway, one more shortcut that I frequently find useful:
php http://php.net/%sThat's a good one Freso! I've been meaning to add that one to the list as well!
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