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Helm source for looking up dictionaries
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Support .dict format #21

Open tuhdo opened 10 years ago

tuhdo commented 10 years ago

There are many free dictionaries with .dict format here: http://abloz.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/

It would be nice if we have support for it. To get the raw text dictionary:

tmalsburg commented 10 years ago

It would indeed be useful to have access to these dictionaries. However, it's currently not a priority for me. Perhaps you can find a converter that translates dict to the format understood by helm-dictionary?

tuhdo commented 10 years ago

Well, those dictionaries have definitions with multiple lines, so I don't think it can be converted from .ding format to those and I also tried to search for one, but no luck.,

tmalsburg commented 10 years ago

Hm, I see. Given how different the dict format is, it may be easier to write a new helm source for dict. I might give it a shot on a rainy weekend (there are many here in England) but I can't promise it.

tuhdo commented 10 years ago

Sure,

helm-dictionary is already very useful atm. Being able to access such a big collection of dictionaries make it even cooler.

tmalsburg commented 10 years ago

Thanks. Glad to hear that you think it's useful.