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- Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
- Oh Baybe
- I need some
- Deep Linking
- Let us go
- Surfin' in the raw!
- N E W S
- Tue Jul 12 00:46:02 BST 2011 - surfraw 2.2.8
- * New elvi:
- + ads - search the SAO/NASA Astrophysics data system.
- + archwiki: search the arch wiki.
- + bugzilla - search various bugzillas, defaults to kernel.
- + cablesearch - search wikileaks cables
- + deli: search delicious.com.
- + duckduckgo - replace with better implementation
- + openports - search openbsd ports
- + pasearch - search Penny Arcade archives.
- + scirus, scitopia, worldwidescience - science searches
- + stack: search stackoverflow.com and friends.
- + yandex - russian web search.
- * Changed elvi:
- + archpkg: now supports options.
- + arxiv: quote queries for exact string matches.
- + ctan: Option -doc replaced by -id. Options no longer mutually
- exclusive.
- + codesearch, musicbrainz, rpmsearch: rewritten to match new
- site. Options have changed to match site, see help message.
- + debbugs: add -s as an alias for -search=src.
- + google: new options:
- * -v, -search=video: search video
- * -m, -search=maps: search maps
- * -n, -search=news: search news
- * -i: new shortcut for -search=images
- * -safe=default|off|moderate|strict: safe search
- + openbsd: support -misc and -tech.
- + opensearch: new option -r, uses remote redirector
- which means it can run without heavy dependencies.
- + pgpkeys: add more options, support more keyservers,
- default to sks-keyservers.net.
- + translate: added Google Translate support.
- + wayback: advanced search is broken, rip out all
- options and use basic search.
- + wikipedia: new option -d, uses remote redirector
- to search both wikipedia and deletionpedia.
- use -fallback=wikipedia|deletionpedia to customise
- behaviour.
- * Fixed elvi: archpkg, arxiv, cia, codesearch, ctan, javasun,
- lastfm, musicbrainz, netbsd, rpmsearch, w3link, yahoo.
- * Removed elvi:
- + altavista: is now just a front-end to yahoo. RIP.
- + cddb: gracenote made the "hard decision" to remove the
- website search. sigh.
- + fast: another yahoo front-end.
- + filesearching: refuses to work without 'Referer:' header.
- + port: site gone
- * Support -local-help, --local-help or -lh to get elvi-specific
- help without displaying the global options. This works for
- all elvi and the main surfraw script.
- * Support -h as a synonym for -help.
- * Improved listing of elvi.
- * Default to surfraw_graphical_remote=no,
- as chromium doesn't support "-remote openURL".
- * Bookmark names are now an exact match not a substring match.
- * Support BSD/POSIX make.
- * README: added INTEGRATION section on uzbl and pentadactyl.
- Thu May 6 20:20:09 BST 2010 - surfraw 2.2.7
- * New elvi (surfraw now has over one hundred elvi!):
- + by tczy:
- * bing: Search using Microsoft's Bing.
- + by Ivy Foster:
- * bookfinder: Search for books using www.bookfinder.com.
- * bugmenot: Bypass compulsory web registration with bugmenot.com.
- + by Ian Beckwith:
- * duckduckgo: Search the web via duckduckgo.com.
- * scroogle: Search Google anonymously via www.scroogle.org.
- + by Simone Fittabile:
- * jamendo: Search Jamendo: free music with Creative Commons licenses
- * Removed elvi: genpkg (use genportage instead).
- * Fixed elvi:
- + cnn
- + imdb (thanks to Sadako)
- + bbcnews (thanks to Sumant Oemrawsingh and James Rowe)
- * aur: added options (thanks to Ivy Foster)
- * wikipedia, ixquick: support https. Thanks to Simone Fittabile.
- * debwiki: remove -w, Debian Women wiki is being merged into main
- Debian wiki. Thanks to Simone Fittabile.
- * Improved support for screen(1). Thanks to Ivy Foster:
- + Support for using tmux as $SURFRAW_screen.
- + Added `-ns|-newscreen' switch for setting $SURFRAW_new_screen.
- + Added $SURFRAW_screen_args for passing arguments to the defined
- screen tool.
- * uzbl_load_url_from_surfraw: fix menu.
- Thanks to Sumant Oemrawsingh.
- Fri Nov 20 03:34:19 GMT 2009 - surfraw 2.2.6
- * New elvi:
- + by Sumant Oemrawsingh:
- * cliki - search the common lisp wiki.
- * l1sp - search lisp documentation.
- * mathworld - search Wolfram MathWorld.
- * mininova - search mininova for torrents.
- * youtube - search youtube for videos.
- + by Simone Fittabile:
- * acronym - find acronyms
- * gcache - search google cache.
- + by Nick White:
- * genbugs - search gentoo bug tracker
- + by Ian Beckwith:
- * debpkghome - view home page of a debian package.
- * debvcsbrowse - browse vcs of a debian package
- * rpmsearch - search for packages in rpm-based distros.
- * finkpkg - search Fink packages.
- * macports - search macports packages.
- * Move config files to follow XDG basedir spec
- This means that if your global config was in /etc/surfraw.conf
- it is now in /etc/xdg/surfraw/conf, and local config is
- now in $HOME/.config/surfraw/conf. The same applies to bookmarks.
- See README for details on configuring config locations, and
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
- for the gory details. The old locations are still supported for
- backwards-compatibility.
- * Support per-user elvi in $HOME/.config/surfraw/elvi/
- Patch by James Rowe, idea by Sumant Oemrawsingh.
- * Added -o | -o=FILE option, to fetch URL and dump to
- stdout or FILE.
- * Modified elvi:
- + freebsd: new options -psearch=TYPE -psection=SEC
- to conduct a search of type TYPE in section SEC of ports.
- + netbsd: new option -ps to search ports
- + openbsd: new option -ps to search ports
- + debsec: fixed (Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff, for this
- and all his other work).
- + cia: fixed.
- * Added examples/uzbl_load_url_from_surfraw, to integrate surfraw
- with uzbl (uzbl.org), thanks to Sumant Oemrawsingh.
- Wed May 13 02:30:21 BST 2009 - surfraw 2.2.5
- * Replaced scaleplus elvi with comlaw.
- * rfc: use HTML for RFCs and BCPs.
- * Support '--' to indicate end of options, so, for instance,
- "sr google -g -- foo -bar" works.
- * debpackages, debcontents: update ubuntu release names.
- Sun Mar 1 02:12:14 GMT 2009 - surfraw 2.2.4
- * New elvi:
- + ntrs, scicom, springer - Thanks to Wim Van Hoydonck.
- + urban - Thanks to J. R. Mauro.
- + aur - Thanks to Ren? Reigel.
- * excite: fixed.
- * cite: changed to use citeseerx.ist.psu.edu, the old
- citeseer is no longer being updated.
- * amazon: fixed; updated categories.
- Sat Sep 13 20:40:01 BST 2008 - surfraw 2.2.3
- * Surfraw now defaults to graphical mode. See surfraw(1)
- for how to change the default back.
- * Search for default browsers during build.
- This can be overridden by passing --with-text-browser=BROWSER
- and --with-graphical-browser=BROWSER to ./configure.
- * New elvis: piratebay, genportage. Thanks to J.R. Mauro.
- * Detect which awk to use.
- * Fixed slinuxdoc and webster.
- * Removed bashisms.
- * Fixed uninstall.
- * Add --disable-sr option to ./configure to disable installing the
- 'sr' symbolic link, to avoid clashes with the SR programming language.
- Thu Jul 3 08:47:14 BST 2008 - surfraw 2.2.2
- * New elvis:
- + arxiv - Search the Los Alamos Science E-Print Archive
- replaces xxx which was just a stub (thanks to John Gruenenfelder).
- + javasun - search Java API Docs (thanks to James TD Smith)
- * Fixed elvis:
- + debpackages/debcontents: update options and distributions,
- add -a options to use archive.debian.net.
- + wetandwild: switched to weather.com, as yahoo now uses AJAX.
- Command line options and SURFRAW_weather_* variables no
- longer supported.
- + austlii: fixed search URL, default method is now 'auto'.
- + port: original site is back.
- + translate: fixed URLs.
- * Removed elvis:
- + sundocs: use sunonesearch.
- + xxx: replaced by arxiv.
- * surfraw: fix w3_url_escape quoting (thanks Micah Anderson)
- * surfraw-update-path: fix csh syntax (thanks John Gruenenfelder)
- * google: Add -country option to specify country. Respects
- SURFRAW_lang variable (Thanks to James TD Smith).
- Sun Mar 9 19:24:26 GMT 2008 - surfraw 2.2.1
- * New elvi:
- + lsm - Search the Linux Software Map.
- + sunonesearch - Search Sun's One Search (replaces sunsolve).
- * Fixed elvi: cddb, cnn, debcontents, deblists, debpackages, freedb,
- fsfdir, genpkg, and yubnub (thanks for the latter to Nathaniel Heinrichs).
- * Removed elvis: sunsolve (replaced by sunonesearch).
- * amazon, ebay, translate: expanded language/country list.
- * Added new configuration variable SURFRAW_lang.
- Elvi that support specifying language or country
- will use this as a default. If used, it should be set
- to an ISO 2-letter country code (eg uk, de, ca).
- Thanks to Simon Ernst for the idea.
- * Fixed quoting single quotes in URLs (thanks to Alexander
- Becher for the patch).
- Thu Sep 6 21:59:35 BST 2007 - surfraw 2.2.0
- * Resumed making upstream releases.
- Surfraw is now maintained by the Debian Surfraw-Devel Team. Please
- report bugs to <surfraw-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, and feel
- free to join us on the list.
- There have been many changes since the last official release.
- New elvi: alioth archpkg bbcnews cddb cia codesearch ctan cve
- deblists deblogs debpts debsec debwiki discogs dmoz ebay
- etym foldoc freedb fsfdir genpkg gutenberg happypenguin
- imdb ixquick lastfm leodict musicbrainz opensearch
- pgpkeys port rae rfc scholar scpan w3css w3html w3link
- w3rdf wayback wikipedia yubnub
- Removed elvi: appwatch britannica ftpfind ftpsearch jake
- raging swhois
- Elvi now live in /usr/lib/surfraw (or /usr/local/lib/surfraw)
- Use surfraw-update-path to add this directory to your path or
- prefix elvi with sr or surfraw, eg "sr google foo bar".
- Bookmarks can be defined in /etc/surfraw.bookmarks or
- ~/.surfraw.bookmarks. See /etc/surfraw.bookmarks for the format.
- Bookmarks can be used with "sr [options] bookmarkname".
- There is now a test suite. "make test" to run it or
- see test/README.
- For a full list of changes since the last release, see
- debian/changelog. From this release onwards, changes will be
- logged in ./ChangeLog as normal.
- Tur Mar 30 01:21:03 CEST 2004 - surfraw 2.0.2
- * Added bash completion support by Justin B Rye
- * Do not set $DISPLAY when running in text mode
- * Removed sharereactor elvi
- Tue Feb 10 04:01:40 GMT 2004 - surfraw 2.0.1
- Please note that the elvi have moved again, to /usr/lib/surfraw
- If you used surfraw-update-path from version 2.0 to add the elvi
- directory to your path, you will need to run it again, first with
- -remove to remove the old path, then again with -add. To change your
- path you will need to either log out and in again or source the
- relevant config files.
- * Moved elvi to /usr/lib/surfraw
- * Updated docs for new elvi location
- * Changed man page section for all elvi to 1sr
- * Fixed surfraw help text
- * Added man page links for pgpkeys, ebay and sharereactor
- * Added linda override (and surfraw.dirs) for usr-lib-in-arch-all
- * Added debhelper tokens to prerm/postinst
- (they were in released 2.0-1 but not CVS)
- * Rewrote man page surfraw.1.in, added man page elvi.1sr.in
- Both go via autoconf.
- * Removed old debian/surfraw.1
- * Updated debian/surfraw.links to point elvi to elvi.1sr.gz
- * Updated AUTHORS to hopefully include every contributor, ever.
- * Changed a few "def"s to "defyn"s in surfraw.conf.in
- * Fixed quoting so sr google foo "bar baz" qux works
- * Makefile.am: Added missing files to EXTRA_DIST
- * Added a debconf note (only visible if upgrading from 2.0-1)
- explaining the elvi have moved again
- * configure.in: changed to new AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE format,
- specified minimum automake version 1.7
- * updated surfraw.lsm with new URLs
- * deleted debian/rules.save (old rules backup)
- * Removed elvi:
- + britannica: gone subscription-only
- + swhois: all whois sites I can find have anti-harvester features
- that stop us using them.
- * Fixed elvi:
- + wikipedia - added missing quotes (could've sworn I did this already)
- + cnn - updated url
- + translate - corrected docs
- * Moved debian/surfraw.links to links.IN in top dir, now uses autoconf
- and is not debian-specific
- * Makefile.am: Added install-data-hook to create links
- * configure.in, elvi/Makefile.in: fixed ELVIDIR quoting
- * added elvi/surfraw_elvi to CLEANFILES & removed it from cvs, as it is
- generated on build.
- * disabled ifs quoting in elvi that don't like it:
- freedb, happypenguin, jake, rhyme, scaleplus,
- sharereactor, thesaurus, webster, deblists.
- * Added note to HACKING explaining how to disable ifs quoting
- * synced NAMESPACE branch with HEAD
- Please use the main HEAD branch from now on.
- * links.IN: made links relative
- * Converted debconf to po-debconf
- * Eliminated templates.IN, as it confused po-debconf
- * Deautoconfiscated the debian directory, as only templates went through
- autoconf
- Tue Dec 23 03:19:58 GMT 2003 - surfraw 2.0
- New development team, see http://alioth.debian.org/projects/surfraw
- * Moved elvi to /usr/bin/surfraw-elvi. (Closes: #209155, #192869, #201175)
- * Provided surfraw-update-path to put new dir in path.
- * Added sr as alias to surfraw.
- * Added bookmark support and /etc/surfraw.bookmarks.
- * New elvi: alioth, rfc, scpan, deblists. (Closes: #134498)
- plus leodict and happypenguin by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #217799)
- and wikipedia, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff (Closes: #223953)
- and sharereactor, pgpkeys and ebay, also by Moritz Muehlenhoff
- * Fixed elvi: altavista, debcontents, excite, jake, scaleplus,
- slinuxdoc, sundocs, swhois, translate.
- * amazon: fixed test (Closes: #163903) and -country, removed tag-id stuff.
- * debcontents: changed options to SURFRAW_debcontents_*.
- * sourceforge: added -type and -exact options.
- * webster: added -t (thesaurus) option.
- * debbugs: added options.
- * Removed elvi: appwatch, ftpsearch, ftpfind, raging (sites defunct).
- * Updated Debian Standards-Version to 3.6.1.0
- * surfraw.in:
- - Applied Brian Nelson's "-remote openURL" patch (Closes: #165967).
- - Fixed browser selection (Closes: #118314).
- * google -l/-lucky support (Closes: #127078, #128544).
- * Added deja patch from Christian Garbs (Closes: #149600).
- * debian/rules: changed to use DESTDIR.
- * Force default browser to sensible-browser (Closes: #119357)
- - This supercedes NMU changes (Closes: #200164, #201229, #149584)
- - Change default browser in manpage (Closes: #113148)
- * Rename stranslate back to translate (Closes: #141243)
- * Make woffle not look for /usr/local/bin/surfraw (Closes: #156466)
- * Add lynx to Recommends (Closes: #141242)
- * Make surfraw lintian-clean
- - Remove '(s)' from copyright
- - Remove /etc conffile entries
- * Kevin Kreamer <kkreamer@etherhogz.org> did this work.
- * Easy bugs first
- - fix type in README (Closes: #154304)
- - s/README/README.gz/ in manpage (Closes: #164206)
- * Added elvi for imdb, cddb, freedb and bbcnews written by Ian Beckwith.
- * changed "Author(s)" to "Author" in debian/copyright
- * removed debian/conffiles to prevent debhelper being so incredibly
- "helpful" as to inlude conffiles *twice*
- Wed Dec 26 02:48:06 EST 2001 - Surfraw 1.0.7
- Fix major sed lossage in 1.0.6 which removed all references to
- http:// (not just in the documentation strings as was intended)
- Sun Dec 23 21:02:57 EST 2001 - Surfraw 1.0.6
- New elvi: freebsd, openbsd, filesearching, ftpfind
- Updated elvi: translate (babelfish), ftpsearch, fast, netbsd
- Rename linuxdoc elvi to slinuxdoc, to prevent name clash with sgmltools
- Use test -r instead of test -e which inexplicably chocked Solaris8
- Documentation changes
- Tue Nov 6 11:14:21 EST 2001 - Surfraw 1.0.5
- Fix wayward indentation introduced in 1.0.4
- which caused -browser to fail
- Note that SURFRAW_browser was made obsolete in 1.0.4.
- SURFRAW_text_browser and SURFRAW_graphical_browser
- replace its functionality
- STATE EXTRA CLEARLY THE FORMAT OF ~/.surfraw.conf so
- even Redhat users get it.
- Thu Oct 25 05:32:25 EST 2001 - Surfraw 1.0.4
- New elvi: debbugs, debcontents, debpackages, swhois, woffle
- Dead elvi: ircsearch, newscientist
- -g and -t switch between graphical & text browsers
- -new opens a new window on -remote comprehending browsers
- Support "--" option to end all options
- Fix url space escaping problem
- Surfraw placed into the public domain
- Fri Jan 12 14:51:10 EST 2001 - Surfraw 1.0.3
- New elvi: amazon
- Add `scaleplus' elvi to elvi/Makefile.am
- Minor documentation bug fixes
- Wed Sep 27 06:37:48 EST 2000 - Surfraw 1.0.2
- Viva l`explorateur de texte!
- http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/28/1143249.shtml
- http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/20000828/A32287-2000Aug28.html
- Translate elvi didn't correctly parse -from or -to
- HACKING file was missing from EXTRA_DIST
- Fri Aug 25 23:42:31 EST 2000 - Surfraw 1.0.1
- New elvi: britannica
- Updated elvi: freshmeat
- Fri Aug 25 02:26:31 EST 2000 - Surfraw 0.5.8
- New elvi: stockquote (nasdaq, quote.com, yahoo), jake
- Don't open new screen(1)s by default
- Zorch usage of local variables (not POSIX)
- Sat Aug 12 20:00:45 EST 2000 - Surfraw 0.5.7
- New elvi: fast netbsd translate W wetandwild.
- Auto detect browser during configure phase.
- Built in support for screen(1)
- Built in support for netscape-remote
- `surfraw' on its own now displays a list of elvi
- Sun Aug 6 11:43:50 EST 2000 - Surfraw 0.5.6
- New elvi: newscientist pubmed freshmeat
- Sat Aug 5 16:07:55 EST 2000 - Surfraw 0.5.5
- New elvi: appwatch cnn excite ftpsearch linuxdoc scaleplus sundocs
- sunsolve thesaurus weather webster
- Wed Aug 2 08:56:04 EST 2000
- Name change, surfaw -> surfraw
- Web-site is now http://surfraw.sourceforge.net/
- Sun Jul 30 17:51:50 EST 2000 - Surfaw 0.5.4
- A Lazy sunday. A tired, but happy mood. The afternoon drowses by and
- we have the initial version.
- $Id$