Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-19 Thread Bennett Piater
On 05/19/2018 10:40 AM, Jens John wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general > wrote: > > You may want to use something like > >  tell ()  { dict "$@" | colorit | less -R >  } > > to get a coloured output, which is much more practical for long result

Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-19 Thread Jens John
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: May 18 2018, Ralph Corderoy has written: ... dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus You may want to use something like tell () { dict "$@" | colorit | less -R } to get a coloured output, which is much more

Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-18 Thread Jeanette C. via arch-general
May 18 2018, Ralph Corderoy has written: ... dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus Thanks Ralph! ... Best wishes, Jeanette * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube:

Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jeanette, > is there a tool in the Arch repositories, including AUR, that can > access a thesaurus like mythes from the commandline? Package dictd offers dict(1) that can talk to a set of online dictionaries that include a thesaurus using the RFC'd DICT protocol, but not MyThes. dict -d

[arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-18 Thread Jeanette C. via arch-general
Hey hey, is there a tool in the Arch repositories, including AUR, that can access a thesaurus like mythes from the commandline? I've read about an example program coming with the source distribution of mythes, but couldn't find anything on my system. Before finding and installing sources,