[Surfraw-devel] Setting language in surfraw.conf

[Ian Beckwith]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:22:56PM +0200, Simon Ernst wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I don't know if this idea had already come up, but what about a
> language option in the surfraw.conf file? There are various elvis
> which have such an option. Until now, I had to edit them, so they
> always use my language.  Next update and my changes are gone. I had
> to edit every single elvi again and again.

Good idea. I've implemented it as SURFRAW_lang, which should be set to
a 2-letter ISO country code. Elvi affected: amazon, bbcnews, ebay,
ixquick, leodict, opensearch, translate, wetandwild, wikipedia.
I've just committed it to CVS. There's also a new elvis, lsm, to 
search the linux software map.

Incidently, you didn't need to edit the elvi directly, you could set
defaults in .surfraw.conf or as environment variables. In general, any
variable declared at the top of an elvis source file with def or defyn
can be overridden like this. For instance, if you wanted pgpkeys to
always display signatures, add to your ~/.surfraw.conf:

SURFRAW_pgpkeys_sigs=on

likewise, with the new SURFRAW_lang variable, to set your
country/language to fr:

SURFRAW_lang=fr

cheers,

Ian.

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