When I asked people if they knew of a dict.org command line client, no one mentioned that Net::Dict existed. Here's a copy of the original source. use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::FormatText;
use WWW::Mechanize;
main( @ARGV );
exit;
sub main {
initialize( @_ );
for ( @_ ) {
my $def =
HTML::FormatText->format_string(
WebClient::Dict_org::define( $_ ) );
$def =~ s/\A.+-{30,}[\r\n]+(.+)^\s*-{30,}.+/$1/ms;
print $def;
}
1;
}
sub initialize {
$| = 1;
1;
}
package WebClient::Dict_org;
use WWW::Mechanize;
our $DEFAULT_URL; INIT { $DEFAULT_URL = 'http://dict.org' }
sub define { site_define( $DEFAULT_URL, @_ ) }
sub site_define {
my $site = shift;
my $word = shift;
my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$browser->get( $site );
$browser->set_visible( $word );
$browser->click;
$browser->content;
}
__END__
=pod
=head1 NAME
dict - a simple client for http://dict.org
=head1 SYNOPSIS
dict insufflation
(define-word "insufflation")
C-x d
=head1 EMACS BINDING
Emacs is a great place to bind all sorts things together and this is
no exception. Add this to your .emacs file to create the function
DEFINE-WORD. If you don't give it a word then it will attempt to
define whatever word is currently under your point.
(defun define-word (input-word)
"Define a word using http://dict.org."
(interactive "MWord to define: ")
(let ((buf (generate-new-buffer "*dict*"))
(word (if (> (length input-word) 0)
input-word
(current-word))))
(shell-command (concat "~/bin/dict " word) buf)
buf))
The following command binds C-x d to the function.
(global-set-key "\C-xd" 'define-word)
=end
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|