Terminator plugin to search on google for selected text.

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I saw a blog post a while ago about somebody writing a plugin for gnome-terminal to search online for the text you have selected in your terminal. Neat trick to quickly search for errors. 

I have hacked together a simple plugin for terminator which is the terminal I mostly use. 

https://github.com/choffee/terminator-plugins/blob/master/searchplugin.py 

Use at your own risk...

 

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  • Nov 23 2010, 5:26 AM
    Helen Cooper responded:
    I just went with googlezilla. Seems to do the trick :-)