vimdictive

Finding meaning in your Vim

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Vimdictive is a plugin for dict.org style dictionary and thesaurus lookups from within Vim.

Global Maps:

• <leader>dm - Show meaning of word under cursor in the Preview Window.

• <leader>ds - Show synonyms for word under cursor in the Preview Window.

• <leader>df - Set the synonym regex filter.

• <leader>dr - Set the synonym rhyme filter.

  Note	The rhyme filter depends on having rhyme installed.

Maps from within the Preview Window:

• <enter> - Show meaning of word under cursor in the Vimdictive browser (window).

• <backspace> - Show synonyms for word under cursor in the Vimdictive browser.

• q - Close the Vimdictive browser.

• <F5> - Refresh Vimdictive browser with most recent query results.

Configuration

By default, Vimdictive accesses http://dict.org/ for dictionary and thesaurus lookups. You can customise this with a setting in your ~/.vimrc like:

let vimdictive_dicts = {
      \ 'dictionary' : ['localhost', ['gcide']],
      \ 'thesaurus' : ['localhost', ['moby-thesaurus']]
      \ }

The curl approach in this plugin was borrowed from the vim-dict plugin.