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created by xerces

(idea) by nighthawk (6.1 y) (print)   ?   1 C! I like it! Thu Apr 06 2000 at 21:13:17

When I was using the Internet Explorer Everything Search Button, I thought, "hey, would'nt it be cool if I could just right click on the highlited text and click "Search Everything" instead of having to go all the way up to that "Search Everything" button... so I made it.

You can download a self-extracting windows installer (250k) at http://www.myfreeoffice.com/geekbox/everything.exe if you don't want to mess with the code below.

Or, just a zip file (83k) that has the files and instructions at http://www.myfreeoffice.com/geekbox/everything.zip that contains the files you need.

Here's the hack:

1) Open notepad. Paste the following 3 lines into it:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Search With Everything]
"Contexts"=dword:00000010 @="C:\\everything.htm"

You can change the name/location of the .htm file to whatever you want. Its contents are posted below. Now, save that to a .reg file and double click to import it into the regestry (Click yes to the warning). Alternatively you can manually enter the keys.

2)Paste this into a new notepad document:

<script>
var oDocument = window.external.menuArguments.document;
oDocument.location.href='http://everything2.com/?node=' +oDocument.selection.createRange().text;
</script>

Alternatively, you can replace the second last line with the following, which will have the results show up in a new window:

new_win = open('http://www.everything2.com/?node='oDocument.selection.createRange().text);

 Save that to wherever you specified the above html document was. In this example it's C:\everything.htm

3)Restart Internet Explorer, highlight some text, right click, and AWAY YOU GO!

(idea) by xerces (2.8 d) (print)   ?   1 C! I like it! Sat Apr 21 2001 at 22:38:05

This is a useful trick for those of us using Microsoft Internet Explorer. I think you need version 5 or higher for it to work.

  1. Download and run the file at <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.exe>.
  2. Restart your computer if prompted.
  3. Turn on the Links toolbar in IE. (Yes, it has a use after all!)
  4. Click the new Quick Search button.
  5. In the window that opens, enter "e2" in the Shortcut field, change Search to "Custom URL" and enter "http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=%s" for the URL.
  6. Click OK and then Save.
  7. Now, to perform an Everything2 search on "iCab", simply type "e2 iCab" in the Address bar.

You can add your own search engines, or whatever, as long as they expect input via an HTTP GET.

Related techniques are covered under Internet Explorer Everything Search Button and Internet Explorer Context Menu Addon for Everything.

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