Ok, I’m all about the “not using the mouse to navigate if necessary” kind of thing. But sometimes, people take things a bit too far.

While having lunch here in Pasadena, three of us were talking about how the Snap.com search engine, for which we work, is oriented toward people who enjoy images and graphical search results, but… what about people who really don’t care about images?

Hmm. “How about ‘visearch?’ Combine a vi editor with a search engine?”

That is some cool hack you got there :-) A search engine where you can ‘dd‘ to delete certain results, ‘j‘, ‘k‘, ‘n‘, ‘N‘, ‘GG‘ movement keys, and ‘i‘nsert comments in the search. Heck ‘:w‘ saves the search, and not to mention, the vim style ‘:set bg=white‘.

Mix all that with a black background and the wholesome goodness of glowing green terminal text, you get the awesomeness that is visearch.

Links: vi search: using commands of vi to search