Re: Proposed new addition to Jed...

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Laird <dlaird@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have Jed with a message opened on the screen. I select a word using
>Jed's own copy/paste functions and then, using the default Jed menu to get
>to the shell command, I type the alias that gives me dict -d
>moby-thesaurus plus the contents of the paste buffer inside Jed. It is
>cumbersome, but for the time being it works... sort of. As I said, I am
>not a Slang programmer, although it does remind me faintly of my days
>programming in Clipper and Xbase. 8-)=20

One way to handle this without going through bash would be to use the
curl module to interact with the dict server.  I believe Paul also
wrote an interface to dict using his socket module.

Thanks,
--John

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