On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:46:13AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:16 am, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any dict's client that works like ispell? > > I mean, an ispell-like program that makes use the dict server. > > > > TIA, > > Oki > > Greetings Oki: > > I am not sure what you want/need. I just installed 'wordinspect' to do word > lookups. I am running into many rarely used words, and this handy little > utility is now iconized and sits on my taskbar. Just click on it, paste the > words, hit ok, in about a seconds, a new screen opens up with a complete > definition. > > wordinspect uses the dict client. > > What would be absolutely awesome is having a pluggin for my browsers and > editors that could be a right click option!
Another way: install xclip and create a launcher (or menu item)
somewhere that does:
xterm -e dict `xclip-out`
Result: (1) Highlight in browser, (2) click on launcher, (3) smile
:-)
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