Difference between revisions of "Edict"

Revision as of 02:41, 31 March 2012

The elisp package edict.el is an instance of Lookup. It is often referred to simply as edict, which is confusing because it is associated with Edict, the Japanese dictionary. The lisp package can work with other dictionaries.

edict.el allows searching a local dictionary (e.g. Edict, Kanjidic) for character at point or a region. Search results are displayed in an Emacs buffer.

Usage

M-x edict-search-english (prompts for word to search for)
M-x edict-search-kanji (first highlight a character or sequence)

Package availability

Linux

There are SUSE Linux RPMs for both edict.el and EDICT (the Japanese-English dictionary). Note that you can create your own dictionary, or use other dictionaries.

To find the RPMs:Search for edict

edict-emacs-0.9.8-972.2 edict.el, an Emacs Front-end for EDICT
edict-20060807-136.2 The Japanese Dictionary Files for Jim Breen's EDICT Project

Windows XP

The Suse RPMs can also be used on Windows XP. Use 7-Zip on the RPM, and then the enclosed cpio archive. It will create a usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/edict hierarchy, but you can move the edict folder or just its contents to anywhere, then add to load-path.

Modifications

Add to .emacs:

; set a variable edictdir to location of edict.el and the other package elisp files
(add-to-list 'load-path edictdir)
; variable edict-dictionaries points to your dictionaries. It is in suse-start.el
(load "suse-start")

The elisp files are in package edict-emacs-xxx.rpm. It is not necessary to get the edict-xxx.rpm which contains dictionaries, but suse-start.el notes that:

;; the following dictionaries should be available when you
;; have installed edict.rpm:
(setq edict-dictionaries
      (list
       "/usr/share/edict/4jwords"
       "/usr/share/edict/aviation"
       "/usr/share/edict/classical"
       "/usr/share/edict/compdic"
       "/usr/share/edict/compverb"
       "/usr/share/edict/concrete"
       "/usr/share/edict/edict"
       "/usr/share/edict/edicth"
       "/usr/share/edict/enamdict"
       "/usr/share/edict/findic"
       "/usr/share/edict/geodic"
       "/usr/share/edict/j_places"
       "/usr/share/edict/jddict.v02"
       (cons "/usr/share/edict/kanjd212"  'euc-jp)
       "/usr/share/edict/kanjidic"
       "/usr/share/edict/lingdic"
       "/usr/share/edict/mktdic"
       "/usr/share/edict/pandpdic"
       ))

I prefer to define dictionary variables in .emacs before loading suse-start. That way I never have to find suse-start.el again, just change the dictionary variable in .emacs. So a possible modification in suse-start.el is:

(setq edict-dictionaries
      (list kanjidict foodict bardict))

By default:

edict-search-english is on M-+
edict-search-kanji is on M-_

but these can be set with:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c j") 'edict-search-english)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c k") 'edict-search-kanji)

External Links

Find RPMs by name: Search for edict
Monash dictionary project: Jim Breem's Japanese dictionaries

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 edict.el allows searching a local dictionary (e.g. Edict, Kanjidic) for character at point or a region. Search results are displayed in an Emacs buffer.
+==Usage==
+*M-x edict-search-english (prompts for word to search for)
+*M-x edict-search-kanji (first highlight a character or sequence)
 ==Package availability==
 ===Linux===
-There are SUSE linux RPMs for both edict.el and EDICT (the Japanese-English dictionary). Note that you can create your own dictionary, or use other dictionaries.
+There are SUSE Linux RPMs for both edict.el and EDICT (the Japanese-English dictionary). Note that you can create your own dictionary, or use other dictionaries.
-<add link to rpmfind here>
+To find the RPMs:[http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/EByName.html Search for edict]
 * edict-emacs-0.9.8-972.2  edict.el, an Emacs Front-end for EDICT
 * edict-20060807-136.2     The Japanese Dictionary Files for Jim Breen's EDICT Project
-===Windows XP==
+===Windows XP===
 The Suse RPMs can also be used on Windows XP. Use 7-Zip on the RPM, and then the enclosed cpio archive. It will create a usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/edict hierarchy, but you can move the edict folder or just its contents to anywhere, then add to load-path.
@@ Line 69: / Line 71: @@
 </source>
-;; Add key bindings for Org-style outline cycling
-(add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
-  (lambda ()
-    (define-key outline-minor-mode-map [(control tab)] 'org-cycle)
-    (define-key outline-minor-mode-map [(shift tab)] 'org-global-cycle)))
-Now visit any elisp file (say {{Command|find-library RET outline}}) and keep pressing {{Keys|S-TAB}} and see what happens.  Experiment similarly with {{Keys|C-TAB}}.
-(will describe modifications later).
-==Specifying dictionaries==
-Add lisp for this later.
-==Usage==
-*edict-search-english
-*edict-search-kanji
 ==External Links==
-;[http://www.foo.com where to get edict.el]
+;[http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/EByName.html Find RPMs by name]
-: track this down
+: Search for edict
 ;[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html Monash dictionary project]
 : Jim Breem's Japanese dictionaries