AutoHotkey Community

[thinkstorm]

Copy a text snippet into the clipboard and google with Control-G

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[Chris]

Nice. A minor improvement might be to make it browser-neutral by omitting the path. I think this replacement line might be enough:

googleLinkStart = http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

[thinkstorm]

I would not do that! if you already have an internet explorer open (if you use IE ;)), the script will use that window. adding the path to the program opens definitely a new window.

It's a pain to have the 8.3 path in here, though, fiddled around a little bit and couldn't figure out how to put a path with spaces up here (and adding a parameter)

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[Chris]

[thinkstorm]

Hm,
you're absolutely right, it works like a blast! Maybe this was with an earlier version - the script is kind of old... Or I made another stupid mistkae, maybe I forgot the ',' after the RUN or something, anyway, the script works fine :)

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[porche911]

Here's a slightly modified version that will open a google search in a new tab in Mozilla Firefox, or else open a new broswer window.

#g::
clipboard =
Send, ^c
ClipWait, 1

if ErrorLevel <> 0
{
MsgBox, 48, Search Google, No text in clipboard to google., 2
return
}

googleLinkStart = http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=UTF-8&q=
searchTerm = %clipboard%
AutoTrim, On
WinGetActiveTitle, Title
IfInString, Title, Mozilla Firefox
{
SetKeyDelay, 10
send ^t^l
send %googleLinkStart%%searchTerm%{Enter}
}
else
{
StringReplace, searchTerm, searchTerm, `r`n, +, all
StringReplace, searchTerm, searchTerm, %A_SPACE%, +, all
searchTerm = %googleLinkStart%%searchTerm%
Run, %searchTerm%
}
Return

[RevAaron]

I'm a bit late to the game (ok, 5 years), but I've been using this version for Firefox, based on the OP's. porche911's didn't work for me, and looked like a bit of a kludge anyway; command arguments generally make more sense than keyboard shortcuts, when possible.

[Scratch]

[thinkstorm]

Someone mailed me to adjust the script in case you want to reuse an existing Google search window.... Unfortunately I couldn't figure out an easy way to go through all IE/Firefox tabs to look for the right tabs, so only if the foremost tab is a Google search you'll reuse it...

[Cody - not logged in]

This is what I use, if you press Alt+H, it will copy anything highlighted and past it into the edit control (of course you can edit what's automatically copied into there if you like) and in the gui there are 5 buttons, one to search autohotkey, one for google, one for wikipedia, one for dictionary and thesaurus (dictionary and thesaurus uses m-w.com).
When the interface pops up, you can press alt+g for google, alt+w for wikipedia, and so on.