[arch-general] surfraw package

[Jude DaShiell]

As near as I can tell, there were extraneous control characters in my
./config/surfraw/conf file.  When I deleted that file and recreated the
file, surfraw now works correctly.  Control characters may be visible but
that doesn't necessarily mean a screen reader will read them or let a user
know they're actually in a file.
Thanks.



On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Ivy Foster via arch-general wrote:

> On 18 Apr 2021, at 10:51 am -0400, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:
> > do the elvi's need rewriting?  I installed the package according to wiki
> > directions the way I usually install it and am getting on the duckduckgo
> > elvi line 488 file not found error when I give duckduckgo a search term.
>
> Make sure you've set up your environment and/or configuration file
> correctly. You need to set at least one of SURFRAW_graphical_browser
> or SURFRAW_text_browser. Note that line 488 of surfraw (which is a
> shell script) calls SURFRAW_browser, which is set to one of those to
> options, depending on your graphics preferences.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Cheers,
> iff
>
> P.S: "Elvi" is plural already. The singular is "elvis". Yes, really.
>