Using Launchy to search Gmail

Question

I use the Weby extension for Launchy to do custom searches. I should be able to search Gmail like this

using this search definition

Mail   http://mail.google.com/a/caudillweb.com/#search/%1

but the forward slash following #search gets rewritten to a backslash, so the URL that is sent to the browser is

 http://mail.google.com/a/caudillweb.com/#search\foo@caudillweb.com

Gmail doesn't like the backslash, so it considers the URL invalid and redirects to #inbox.

Any ideas how I can stop Launchy (or Weby) from reversing that forward slash?

Answer 1

Perhaps I'm on a different version of Launchy/Weby, but when I configured mine I used the following settings and they worked great:

Name: mail
URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/
Query: #search/%s

Maybe the use of %1 threw it off?

Answer 2

I solved a similar problem using Launchy 2.5.0 by replacing the # with %23.

For instance, when searching contacts, this URL string for searching Google contacts passed through Launchy without exhibiting the bug:

http://mail.google.com/mail/%23contacts/search/%1

Perhaps this can help with your example above.

That said, I just use this search term instead for Gmail:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&q=%1

This does not exhibit the bug nor have the %23 hack.