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I have something tangentially related, I often work with Julia (a programming language), and would like to use !jl to search the docs. However, this leads me to search John Lewis. Having personalised bangs with ability to overwrite the default would allow me to change to something more suitable for me.

    3 months later

    This feature is live and found under More: menu in results

    Customize -> Add Shortcut

    Looking forward to feedback.

    Thank you, I've been looking forward to this!

    Three bits of feedback

    1. I would never have thought to look for this under "More... Customize...". Now I know it's there, it makes sense, and I understand why it's there but I don't think it's discoverable

    2. I can see myself adding a lot of these, which could get unweildy if the only place to add them is under a dropdown menu. Personally I would have preferred to have them on their on page similar to Lenses

    3. Setting up my first one, I used a put the bang symbol in the shortcut, like "!dek" when it was expecting "dek". The bang just didn't work. I deduced what my mistake was and went back to change it, but maybe Kagi could automatically strip the bang symbol so it works. I assume this will be a common mistake for first time users.

    And one positive: I love the way it pre-fills existing DDG bangs. Genius.

      Setting up my first one, I used a put the bang symbol in the shortcut, like "!dek" when it was expecting "dek". The bang just didn't work. I deduced what my mistake was and went back to change it, but maybe Kagi could automatically strip the bang symbol so it works. I assume this will be a common mistake for first time users.

      Hi there - this is a bug, we do indeed intend to take care of this for you 😃

      I can repro this - we'll see whats up and get a fix out.

        riddley

        1) and 2) will come in the next iteration. The opportunity to have a combined menu with shortcuts was too good to pass.

            Finally!

            I'm still testing the feature but one thing I noted is the button "edit", it's confusing and can be easily replaced by a simple "save" (the yellow helps though).

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              Vlad When try to edit a custom bang (yes, I know... it's really a edit, but I still think "save" is a better word)

                  riddley

                  Setting up my first one, I used a put the bang symbol in the shortcut, like "!dek" when it was expecting "dek". The bang just didn't work. I deduced what my mistake was and went back to change it, but maybe Kagi could automatically strip the bang symbol so it works. I assume this will be a common mistake for first time users.

                  A fix for this is deployed now - it will work regardless if you included ! or not. We also fixed custom bangs not properly overriding default ones, if anyone was running into that.

                    Vlad Now I've used it I agree having it there is great. I like that the same list can be triggered using text bangs or clicking GUI elements. It was also cool to be able to edit the Google search right from that menu (to change my default to Google AU)

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