Re-assign search.ini search engine section numbers automatically w/ sed or awk

If you, like me, have a soft spot for tweaking search.ini using a plain text editor to customize that file to suite your personal needs in terms of searching, then you certainly came across the time consuming and unpleasant necessity to re-assign consecutive numbers to the search engines' .ini sections.

If you have the *nixish stream editor sed at hand (it is also available as pre-compiled windows binaries), then you can use the attached sed-script to automate the process of giving numbers to search engines. …

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”Recover“ localStorage and Widgets’ settings for Next 12.00 builds 1317|1325

This script was solely interesting together with builds Opera Next v12.00 1317 and 1325, not earlier or later builds!

If you install Opera 12.00 Next builds 1317 and 1325 over earlier 12.00 Next builds, due to bug DSK-358417 you lose any localStorage data as well as all individual Widgets setting (widgets.storage).

This happens, because formerly mentioned builds expect this data in the ”local“ part of an Opera profile, not in the ”roaming“ (as it is called in Windows Vista). You can fix this by moving the old data to the new location.

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