I’ve been looking into porting some bits of configuration I used to use with Conkeror over to Nyxt. Among them are some of my more complicated “webjumps,” which are essentially shortcuts to longer URLs (typically search engines) but which allow for more complicated processing of a user-supplied argument.
One webjump of mine checks whether the input string ends with two numbers with a space between them, and if so, it zero-pads the numbers to two digits and formats them together. For example, the string “foo bar 1 2” might be converted to “foo bar x01y02” before being handed off to the associated search engine in the usual way.
Another search engine of sorts that I visit frequently is a foreign language dictionary, but it has to be accessed via a POST request rather than the typical GET, with some additional fixed request parameters in addition to my search term.
The search-engines buffer slot in Nyxt is the closest thing to Conkeror’s webjumps I’ve found so far, but it seems strictly limited to GET requests, and with no tweaking of the user-supplied search term, which renders both of the cases I mentioned unworkable. Is that correct?
I presume that I could write my own commands specifically to handle the above two cases, but I’d really prefer to use the same go-to-URL interface for everything, to minimize cognitive load. Is that at all possible?