Feature Request: search with online with selected text

[ghost]

I would love to be able to select any text in Notepad3 and click "Search &Online" in the context menu, right above Open Hyperlink. It would open the system's default web browser with the selected text as a parameter to the default search. It's a small feature but one that would greatly improve its convenience. It would be a killer feature.

[ghost]

I would do a pull request for it, but I'm new to programming. When I try to pull the selected text using SciCall_GetSelText, it returns Japanese.

[ghost]

Notepad++ has it, but it only supports a single selected line, otherwise it fails to search silently. We can do better than that.

[RaiKoHoff]

Notepad3 has this feature already:
Select text, and Menu->File->Launch->Web Template 1 (or Ctrl+Shift+1)
You can configure the search engine in .ini-File:
[Settings2] WebTemplate1=https://google.com/search?q=%s
(default is google.com).
Web template 2 (Ctrl+Shift+2) searches Wikipedia by default ....

[ghost]

That's pretty cool! Is it possible to have the web templates show up in the context menu, since it is contextual?

[RaiKoHoff]

Contextual 🤔 - I think that is possible ...

[ghost]

I'm looking to help add features as I get my feet wet again. I haven't programmed anything since Visual Basic .NET came out

[RaiKoHoff]

@stevesmiles : Development help is always welcome ... 😺
Feel free to test development beta version _5.19.718.2397_BETA (beta channel access see: #1129)

[ghost]

The context menu items work perfectly in the beta build!

[ghost]

I'm slowly learning my way through your notepad3 github repository using Visual Studio 2019.

[hpwamr]

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