Hi, I have read that people use dillo to read documents, long documents, and perhaps whole books, or chapters... In such cases there comes a time when a use of a dictionary is a must. Is it possible to have a dpi that will allow for the running of any shell command on a highlighted portion of the screen? In this example running a dictionary on a word? The output of the command would go into a new tab, or window or split of the current window, horizontally or vertically, depending on the key-binding. On another vein, I have two problems with version 8-pre of about two weeks ago patched with the tab-frame feature (I compiled yesterday's version with the new patch, but could not figure how to start the dpis... can someone tell how in some more details, please?) The first is over-tabbing. For example browsing http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-list/ choose any thread and it opens on a new tab. Read any post and again it opens in a new tab. The second is that copy and/or paste do not work reliably. I am not sure this is dillo's issue though. Sincerely, eythan
Hi Eythan,
I have read that people use dillo to read documents, long documents, and perhaps whole books, or chapters... In such cases there comes a time when a use of a dictionary is a must. Is it possible to have a dpi that will allow for the running of any shell command on a highlighted portion of the screen?
It can be done.
In this example running a dictionary on a word? The output of the command would go into a new tab, or window or split of the current window, horizontally or vertically, depending on the key-binding.
I'd make the dpi have its own window and let dillo grab the word from the mouse pointer position before asking the dpi for the word. All with a keyboard shortcut; very practical! Again, it can be done. If you're a developer, look at the code for selections (to know how to get the word under the mouse pointer), then look at how bookmarks are added (to learn how to send a dpi command) and then read the dpi docs, to bind your dpi. HTH Jorge.-
Again, it can be done. If you're a developer, look at the code for selections (to know how to get the word under the mouse pointer), then look at how bookmarks are added (to learn how to send a dpi command) and then read the dpi docs, to bind your dpi.
HTH Jorge.-
Or you just go and download stardict from http://stardict.sourceforge.net/, select your word and have a nice translation without even recompiling dillo :) -- < bye > \ oO)-. /__ _\ \ \( | \__|\ | ' '--'
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