[Geany-Users] Plugin for showing keyword/API search

[Lars Paulsen]

Thanks, Lex.

Works well and close to what I was looking for but I would prefer a 
solution that is searching the web and opening the result in the 
browser. Also I would like to configure where to search.

On 13.10.2017 18:27, Lex Trotman wrote:
> http://plugins.geany.org/devhelp.html
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 
> On 14 October 2017 at 02:08, Lars Paulsen <lars_paulsen at web.de> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone knows a comfortable way to display a web page
>> for the current selection based on the language type and ideally a pattern.
>> I think of something like this:
>>
>> - right click on a selection
>>
>> - choose some context menu item
>>
>> - depending on the selected text open a browser with a search result
>>
>> - search page should ideally depend on file/language type and pattern. So if
>> the file is a "C" file then, e.g. search the glib reference manual if
>> selected text matches "g_*". On no better match (as a default for the
>> language "C" search on a general "C" page (e.g. www.cplusplus.com).
>>
>> Is there any existing comfortable solution for this? Thanks for all replies
>> in advance.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Lars
>>
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