How to search the Fedora List

[Dave Burns]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> I always use google's advanced search page and specify the root web
> address of the mailing list archives. Works for pretty much everyone's
> mailing lists (except the folks who for some reason have configured
> their archives to not be scanned by search engines).

Yeah, that's where the discussion started, how to do that or something
comparable with more ease. Seems to me that there ought to be an
easier mechanism for putting something like that into my firefox
search engine menu.  Alternatives seem to be

1) quick search/keyword  - requires a search box on a web page,
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 would do. But you have to
remembver the keyword and type in the URL box.
2) mycroft extension - someone needs to rtfm and hack one together, I
may do so if I pass the motivation horizon
3) just type advanced search terms into the google box, or maybe save
that url as a bookmark

I've been doing #3, but I'm lazy and it seems like an annoyance.

I just found a firefox extension (SmartSearch) that lets you use
right-click to get to keyword searches, that may be just the thing:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/188

I'm also looking at imacros
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863), it promises
firefox automation in general, should have a way to speed up keyword
search setup.


Dave