Tip #833: Google lookup as a contextual spell check and phrase verifier.

I started hacking vim + google apis yesterday to do phrase lookups
on google. Google is much better (but
slower than a dictionary) as a contextual speller/data verifier.

However here is something readymade by Danny O'Brien, from
http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/04/16#1050554820

In your .vimrc, add these lines:

" ,g  - create google a href for word under cursor
map ,g <Esc>Bm`:r!ghref <cword><CR>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<esc>dw
vmap ,g yvgvdm`:r!ghref '<C-R>=substitute(@0, "['\n]", " ", "g")<cr>'<cr>"gdd``i<C-R><C-R>g<Esc>

Now put this program somewhere in your PATH, saved as "ghref"

#!/usr/bin/python
##
# ghref - takes a string on command line, looks it up in google, outputs
#         the HTML for a hyperlink to the "I'm feeling lucky" URL
##
import google
import sys
import re
def main(argv):
    search=argv[0]
    data = google.doGoogleSearch(search)
    if (data.results[0].summary):
        title = data.results[0].summary
    else:
        title = data.results[0].title
        title = re.sub('</*b>','',title)
    print '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>' % (data.results[0].URL, title, argv[0])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv[1:])



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