Duckduckgo has this really neat bang feature which I use a lot. It’s much more convenient than Firefox’ native multi-search-engine support, because it flows really well with muscle memory and has an incredible number of search engines pre-programmed. Basically, I really like the feature 
There are a handful for nix related search engines too: DuckDuckGo !Bang.
The ones for the wiki and packages work perfectly, but the !nixopt bang has been broken for as long as I’ve been using nix. I believe the query format changed and duckduckgo never got a notice. I’ve attempted to submit a fix to it twice now (with quite a few months in between), but I guess you need to reach some number of submissions to actually get through their spam filtering.
Could we get a few more reports? DuckDuckGo New !Bang
The correct bang is supposed to be https://search.nixos.org/options?query={{{s}}}. Just write nixopt in the “What is the bang you’d like to update?” box, select “Bang URL” from the “What would you like to update?” dropdown, and add the updated url.
Cool feature. Submitted a report.
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Duckduckgo has this really neat bang feature
which I use a lot. It’s much more convenient than Firefox’ native
multi-search-engine support, because it flows really well with muscle memory and
has an incredible number of search engines pre-programmed. Basically, I really
like the feature
There are a handful for nix related search engines too: DuckDuckGo !Bang.
The ones for the wiki and packages work perfectly, but the !nixopt bang has
been broken for as long as I’ve been using nix. I believe the query format
changed and duckduckgo never got a notice. I’ve attempted to submit a fix to it
twice now (with quite a few months in between), but I guess you need to reach
some number of submissions to actually get through their spam filtering.
Could we get a few more reports? DuckDuckGo New !Bang
The correct bang is supposed to be
https://search.nixos.org/options?query={{{s}}}. Just write nixopt in the
“What is the bang you’d like to update?” box, select “Bang URL” from the “What
would you like to update?” dropdown, and add the updated url.
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