Search alias inconsistent/being consumed

[Zerogaku]

I'm not sure How to replicate this consistently but I noticed this happening way too often.

When using a search alias for example yt (for youtube search) the alias and the search query gets consumed by google, so it ends up typing "yt linux" in google search for example.

[bovine3dom]

Could you post your config? I have never heard of this issue before so I'm wondering if yours has got corrupted somehow. Thanks!

[Zerogaku]

here it is:

# to read on startup use:
# autocmd DocStart .* source ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc
# if on windows use:
# autocmd DocStart .* source C:\User\Null\Appdata\Roaming\tridactyl\tridactyrc
# NOTE: on windows place themes folder in directory containing the tridactylrc

# also for conveniency sake, to get tridactyl running on sites protected my firefox,
# remove urls from extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains in about:config
# and set privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager to true

# Personal theme
colorscheme custom
# set editorcmd $TERMINAL -n tridactyl -e nvim
# fix for tridactyl edit freezing https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/4771
alias editor_xclip composite js document.activeElement.addEventListener('focusin', e => { if(e.target.classList.contains('TridactylEditing')) tri.native.run('xclip -sel clip -o').then(c => tri.excmds.yank(c.content.slice(0, -1))) }, {'once': true}) | editor
bind --mode=insert <C-i> editor_xclip
bind --mode=input <C-i> editor_xclip

# Sane defaults
set smoothscroll false
set modeindicatorshowkeys true
jsb Object.keys(tri.config.get("searchurls")).reduce((prev, u) => prev.then(_ => tri.config.set("searchurls", u, null)), Promise.resolve())
set relatedopenpos next
bind J tabnext
bind K tabprev
set hintdelay 100

# Custom search urls
# youtube
set searchurls.yt https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
# arch linux wiki
set searchurls.aw https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=%s
# wikipedia
set searchurls.wk https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%s
# pinterest
set searchurls.pt https://www.pinterest.es/search/pins/?q=%s
# github
set searchurls.gh https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q=%s
# gentoo
set searchurls.gtw https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=%s

bindurl ^https://github.com gi hint -Vc .AppHeader-searchButton

# global marks for quick tab switching
bind <A-\> gobble 1 markaddglobal
bind \ gobble 1 markjumpglobal

# rebind tab for selecting command results
bind --mode=ex <C-j> ex.next_completion
bind --mode=ex <C-k> ex.prev_completion

# close all other tabs binding

bind gx* tabonly

# Multiwindow bindings
bind gd tabdetach
bind gD composite tabduplicate; tabdetach

[bovine3dom]

This line here

jsb Object.keys(tri.config.get("searchurls")).reduce((prev, u) => prev.then(_ => tri.config.set("searchurls", u, null)), Promise.resolve())

is probably the culprit. Firefox storage has lots of race conditions that cause very strange behaviour.

I'd recommend removing that line from your RC, wiping your Tridactyl settings with :sanitise tridactyllocal, running that line manually in Tridactyl once and then restarting Tridactyl.

[Zerogaku]

Thanks I'll do that and see if it makes any difference!

Also wouldn't it be best to not have default aliases to begin with? Or at least not without a prefix of some sort in case the user wishes to actually search for topics related the the search alias name?

[bovine3dom]

You're probably right, we do have a lot of them. Initially it was because they weren't user-configurable, but that reason is about 6 years out of date. I'll try to get some more feedback and see what people think.