| You type | First row says |
|---|---|
example.com/page | Open example.com/page |
postgres vacuum bloat | Search the web for “postgres vacuum bloat” (with the engine name) |
Below the first row are suggestions: your bookmarks (★) first, then your
history, that match the words you typed. Every word must appear somewhere in
the title or the address, and up to four bookmarks plus eight recent pages are
shown. This is how you retype less: wr itself learns what you read.
| Key (in the address bar) | What it does |
|---|---|
↑ ↓, Tab / Shift+Tab | choose a row |
Enter | open the selected row |
Ctrl+U | clear the line |
Ctrl+W | delete the last word |
| paste | works; line breaks become spaces |
Esc | close |
With nothing typed, the bar lists your bookmarks and recent pages — a quick way back to something.
The search engine. Settings → Browsing → Search engine offers DuckDuckGo
(the default), Wikipedia and GitHub. To use anything else, put its search URL in
the config file with %s where the query goes:
search_engine = "https://example.com/search?q=%s"Results are ordinary pages, so they read and behave like any other page. Engines that need JavaScript to show results will not work.
You can also search straight from the command line: wr how does tcp work.