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Userscript for nicer l1sp.org search

I love the l1sp.org documentation redirection service. It is quick and easy to look stuff up there if you know the name, and it has a pretty good search if you don’t. However, the search results are not presented very nicely: They’re very close together, and the ones I’m looking for most often (mostly CLHS pages) are buried somewhere in the middle.

So I wrote a userscript (for Firefox through greasemonkey or Google Chrome/Chromium) to improve things a bit: It enables keyboard navigation (j/k or cursor-down/up select the next/previous result, enter opens the page, and / focuses the input field), and searches for the closest match from the results (ranks them by section and then selects the shortest matching entry).

Get the l1sp.org userscript here.

I do hope that Xach will consider adding these features to l1sp proper (maybe de-uglified a bit… that yellow highlight is really not too great). Until then, you can already enjoy the benefits of just a little javascript (-: