Aliases do not work when using brew search as browser quick search (site search)

[ssbarnea]

Most site search can be configured to be quick searches in browser, so you could directly go to the right page.

Example from Chrome (same for most other browsers):

• Name: brew
• Shortcut: brew
• URL: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/%s

How it works: when typing something like brew foo and press enter in browser search bar, intead of using the default search engine browser will open the URL https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/foo

Currently this work if your search is a perfect match for a brew recipe but it does not work with aliases.

Example, quick search using brew mc will open a 404 page because mc is an alias for midnight-commander.

This could be addressed by providing HTTP redirects for aliases or by implementing a different query that does the redirection.

[SMillerDev]

The formula page isn't designed to be a search engine. There is a search implemented that does show aliasses.

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