Re: dict in Emacs

[Torben Knudsen]

>>>>> "Xah" == Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:

Xah> On Apr 7, 8:15 pm, Evans Winner <tho...@timbral.net> wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a good system for looking up the dictionary
>> definition of a word at point?  I found a dict.el on EmacsWiki and
>> it more or less works, but I found after looking up a few words
>> that it had left a trail of over a thousand buffers open -- and I'm
>> not sure how to debug it.  It also gives me results from, eg.,
>> English to Arabic dictionaries.  I am thinking, there is probably a
>> more convenient solution, and someone here is liable to know what
>> it is.

Xah> one solution is actually to use a browser. i.e. you hit a button
Xah> in emacs, and emacs switchs you to your browser showing the
Xah> definition using a online dictionary. Here's the code:

(defun word-definition-lookup ()
"Look up the word under cursor in a browser."
 (interactive)
 (browse-url
  (concat "http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=";
          (thing-at-point 'word)))
)

I tried to use this with http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict.  However, I
can't figure out what to do to look up a specific word i.e. something
similar to http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=whatever.  

What do I need for dict?
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