Ubiquity is a dynamic command and quasi-natural language add-on for Firefox, recently released by Mozilla Labs. It sure is getting ever so popular, so I decided to write two Drupal-related Ubiquity commands in one shot: drupal and drupal-api.
drupal teleports you to a node on drupal.org when you specify a node ID, so if you type drupal 250047 and hit Enter, you would be taken to http://drupal.org/node/250047. The preview also shows the node title before you hit Enter.
drupal-api looks up Drupal functions on api.drupal.org as you type. You can, for example, type drupal-api db_ and a list of functions starting with "db_" would appear in the suggestions list (thanks to the autocomplete API in Drupal). You can optionally specify the Drupal version; drupal-api db_query on d5 sends you to the Drupal 5 and not the Drupal 6 version of db_query().
View the Ubiquity commands project page to install and learn how to use them. Suggestions welcome.
Actually, I find the FF quick searches that I'm using *all the time* are module-related :
drp module_name : goes to the project page for the module
drc module_name : goes to the cvs html browser for the module - a ubiquity version could further refine by branches - branch suggestions would be cool too :-)
dri module_name : goes to the issue list for the module - a ubiquity version could further refine branches or status, I guess
dris (!) module_name : goes to the 'advanced issues search' form for the module
dria module_name : goes to the 'create issue' form for the module
The last two might look overkill, but they do come handy too :-)
I would *love* a ubiquity command to go to the 'view recent commits'' and 'view all releases' pages for a module, cause that's out of scope for plain old quicksearches
(no direct match between url and module name)
I created a similar command for the Drupal API when Ubiquity was launched last week. See http://joshhuckabee.com/drupal-api-ubiquity-plugin. The version functionality is a nice touch here. I also like the teleport command idea.
Thanks for informing us about this great plugin.
Thanks for great info, I'll take a note in this.
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