SearchEdit - Complete control of the search order

Complete control of the search order

By Bausch PatrickPhilo007. Friday, September 24, 2010 7:16:00 PM

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Editing with SearchEdit both search.ini files is not really the best way of managing the order of your search engines because the standard search engines are always shown on the top.
Dude09 wrote a step-by-step guide how to put with SearchEdit's merge-function all engines in one search.ini in your program folder to eliminate this limitation.
However this method has a few disadvantages and I personally believe there is a better way to handle this problem:

Step-by-step guide:
1. Delete all your standard searches with Opera's graphic user interface:

2. Close Opera
3. Start SearchEdit
4. Open the search.ini file in your profile folder
5. Duplicate the standard searches you like to use with copy&paste

6. Remove the hook of the "disabled" checkbox of the pasted search engines

7. Re-range your searches as it pleases to you
8. Save your search.ini
9. Start Opera
10. Select a standard & speed dial search

Note: There is one small glitch. If you make an Opera-update, changes of (existing) standard searches won't apply to you, like a few versions ago, when Opera had introduced "search suggestions". However it is very easy to add this changes to your existing searches. You only need to remove the "deleted" search from your search.ini and Opera will make an update.

SearchEdit 0.4.1 releasedMulti Search 2: From POST to GET - a step by step guide

Comments

Bucic # Monday, January 3, 2011 4:36:45 PM

You seem to be a search.ini editing guru

Maybe you could help me out here http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=852652

Alexsalexs # Monday, January 3, 2011 4:57:20 PM

open your search.ini in SearchEdit and change the search engine.

Please read Tutorial – First steps

Bucic # Monday, January 3, 2011 5:14:52 PM

I don't see a single feature of SearchEdit that would allow me to achieve this:
"How to make all the "Internal search with" submenu items appear outside that submenu?"
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b68/Bucic/Opera%20forum/opera_menus_declutteredps3_dunno.png -

Alexsalexs # Monday, January 3, 2011 5:46:33 PM

Add Include, Internal Search With

[Hotclick Popup Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_SELSEARCH="Hotclick search, 200,,, "Search Web""
; Submenu, MI_IDM_SEARCH_DUMMY_PARENT, Internal Search With
--------------------1
Item, MI_IDM_DOCCOPY=Copy
Item, M_COPY_TO_NOTE=Copy to note
Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac, Feature Voice, Item, M_HOTCLICK_MENU_ITEM_SPEAK=Speak selection
--------------------2
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY=Hotclick search, 50
Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED=Hotclick search, 51
--------------------3
Submenu, MI_IDM_SELTRANSLATE_EN_FR_PARENT, Translate menu
--------------------4
Item, M_HOTCLICK_POPUP_MENU_GOTO_URL="Go to page, "%t""
Item, MI_IDM_SELMAIL=Send text in mail
--------------------5
Include, Internal Search With

Bucic # Monday, January 3, 2011 7:30:54 PM

It works! Thank you a lot!

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=852652&t=1294082986&page=1#comment8261692
I can rearrange the items using your app anytime later.