Dictionary look-up hack for w3m 1. INTRODUCTION If you have dictionary look-up command (like 'webster'), you can look a word in a document using w3m. This dictionary-lookup code was contributed by `Rubikitch' (rubikitch@ruby-lang.org), and further modifed by Tushar Samant (scribble at pobox.com). 2. INSTALLATION To make use of dictionary look-up, you currently must change a compile option by hand. After running configure, edit config.h and change #undef USE_DICT to #define USE_DICT and recompile w3me (i.e. type "make install"). Note that w3m/0.3+cvs-1.373 or later, USE_DICT is defined by default. Then find or install a CGI program which takes a word as a query string and prints a response. Some ways to do this would be: * If you have the 'webster' command, put something like this in a script called 'w3mdict': #!/bin/sh echo Content-type: text/plain echo webster $QUERY_STRING Then install w3mdict as a local CGI (see the local CGI section of the w3m manual), and set your dictionary options from the options page of w3m (usually invoked with "o"). * If you want this function to look a word up on Google instead, write a local CGI script like this: #!/bin/sh google_q='http://google.com/search?btnG=Google&q' cat <<_END_ Content-type: text/plain W3m-control: GOTO $google_q=$QUERY_STRING W3m-control: DELETE_PREVBUF _END_ and set its path as your dictionary-lookup URL option. 3. USAGE You can use the following two commands: ESC w Input a word and look it up using w3mdict command. ESC W look up the current word in the buffer. To change these keys, edit ~/.w3m/keymap and edit lines for the functions DICT_WORD and DICT_WORD_AT respectively.