Index: xfce4-verve-plugin-1.0.0/panel-plugin/verve.c
===================================================================
--- xfce4-verve-plugin-1.0.0.orig/panel-plugin/verve.c	2012-02-18 14:44:22.325115407 -0600
+++ xfce4-verve-plugin-1.0.0/panel-plugin/verve.c	2012-02-18 14:49:35.757120396 -0600
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #define MATCH_URL2  "^(www|ftp)[" HOSTCHARS "]*\\.[" HOSTCHARS ".]+(:[0-9]+)?" \
                     "(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%]*[^]'.}>) \t\r\n,\\\"])?/?$"
 #define MATCH_EMAIL "^(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+$"
+#define MATCH_BANG  "^!"
 
 
 
@@ -163,11 +164,21 @@
   }
   else
   {
-    /* Run command using the xfterm4 wrapper if the terminal flag was set */
-    if (G_UNLIKELY (terminal))
-      command = g_strconcat ("xfterm4 -e ", input, NULL);
+    if (verve_is_bang (input))
+    {
+      /* Replace spaces with +s for exo-open - the search engine will understand these */
+      g_strdelimit(input, " ", '+');
+      /* Launch DuckDuckGo */
+      command = g_strconcat ("exo-open https://duckduckgo.com/?q=", input, NULL);
+    }
     else
-      command = g_strdup (input);
+    {
+      /* Run command using the xfterm4 wrapper if the terminal flag was set */
+      if (G_UNLIKELY (terminal))
+        command = g_strconcat ("xfterm4 -e ", input, NULL);
+      else
+        command = g_strdup (input);
+    }
   }
     
   /* Try to execute the exo-open command */
@@ -278,5 +289,41 @@
 }
 
 
+
+gboolean
+verve_is_bang (const gchar *str)
+{
+  GString     *string = g_string_new (str);
+  pcre        *pattern;
+  const gchar *error;
+  int          error_offset;
+  int          ovector[30];
+  gboolean     success = FALSE;
+
+  /* Compile pattern */
+  pattern = pcre_compile (MATCH_BANG, 0, &error, &error_offset, NULL);
+
+  /* Test whether the string matches this pattern */
+  if (pcre_exec (pattern, NULL, string->str, string->len, 0, 0, ovector, 30) >= 0)
+    success = TRUE;
+
+  /* Free pattern and string */
+  pcre_free (pattern);
+  g_string_free (string, TRUE);
+
+  if (success)
+    {
+      /* Don't search DuckDuckGo for this query is there is an executable by this name. */
+      if (g_find_program_in_path (str))
+      {
+        success = FALSE;
+      }
+    }
+
+  /* Return true if string matched the first pattern and there is no matching executable */
+  return success;
+}
+
+
 
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