Re: Do you look-up online dictionaries within Emacs?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need often bilingual dictionaries like the excellent leo.org and
> dict.cc; dict.el with the dict servers is not really an option.  At the
> moment I'm using mostly my mobile phone as portable dictionary but I'd
> rather want do this within Emacs.
>
> There seem to be at least 3 solutions:
>
> x-dict.el
> http://www.xsteve.at/prg/python/
>
> r-dict.el
> https://github.com/tsdh/rdictcc
>
> eww
> but leo.org and dict.cc are barely readable in eww
>
> What is working for you?

  I use eedic and dict/dictd running on my own computer.

  s-d looks up the word under the cursor and displays the result in a second 
window.

  s-n finds any singleword anagrams of the word under the cursor.

  s-w uses Wordplay by Evans Crisswell to list all words that can be
  made from the letters in the current word as well as multiword
  anagrams.

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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>