Re: Request Nova BBS add easier-to-remember search URL links for Usenet article lookups

On 3/20/24 02:33, Andrew wrote:

No big deal but I do not understand Grant's suggestion above.
What's a "search shortcut" and which "client" is Grant talking about?

Custom search engines (or some nomenclature like that) used to be what they were called in Firefox.
Now they seem to be bookmarks with keywords.
I have the following bookmark in Firefox:
    Name:  USPS Tracking
     URL:  https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?qtc_tLabels1=%s
Keyword:  usps
So any time I type "usps " (trailing space is important) in the address bar it changes and indicates that it's doing a search and then replaces the "%s" in the URL (from the bookmark) with whatever I type after the URL in the address bar.
So  you could have something like:
    Name:  NovaBBS
     URL:  https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=%s
Keyword:  nova
So that any time you type "nova news.admin.peering" the web browser goes to the following URL:
 https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?group=news.admin.peering
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Grant. . . .