add thesaurus

[garyfeng]

have looked at several possibilities. Best candidate:

https://github.com/daizoru/node-thesaurus, which uses MyThes, the open-office thesaurus. It provides no GUI, but a simple function to look up a word; see below. We will need to design a simple GUI to show and select the word.

var thesaurus = require("thesaurus");

// basically returns a list of similar words
console.log(thesaurus.find("structuralism"));
[ 'structural linguistics',
  'linguistics',
  'structural anthropology',
  'theory',
  'structural sociology' ]

[garyfeng]

The convention in MS Word is the following:

• you place the cursor near a word, or highlight a word
• click the thesaurus button (or menu)
• a dialogue box will pop up, with the target word and alternative words for selection.

This would be not too hard to implement on the basis of node-thesaurus