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jEdit’s Dict Plugin

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2003-12-02

Today we look at jEdit’s Dict plugin. What does it do?

This plugin searches the word(s) you give it in the dict.org dictionary. Basically implements client side of RFC 2229 and allows the user to search in 12 databases.

Ok, so invoking the plugin brings up a dialog, you type in the word(s) and click ‘OK’

jEdit then presents the definition in a new window. Simple, eh? Sure, but you can make it even more simple, if so desired. You could add a contextual menu command to right/control click and look up a word, or you could add a toolbar icon if so desired…

Ok, that’s enough jEdit evangelizing for today…

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MTX Searching?

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2003-12-01

The “Internal Search Word Report” tells me that these words were searched for in November:

skating
cow

(Dr. Frank would be proud.)

I fully expect this to be followed up with the words “surfing” and “cow” in December…

Don’t let me down folks!

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Back… with cats!

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2003-12-01

We took a short break, a hiatus if you will, but we are now back, and we’re not alone…

The cats: Lucy and Tinkerbell
As you can see, this site is now complete, as it features a photo of cats. Go ahead, check the manual. A web site cannot be considered complete until it contains at least one photo of some sort of cat. Whew, I’m glad that’s over.

Yes, these two cats, going by the names of Lucy and Tinkerbell, can now be found within our house. This would be because they live with us. We adopted them, they’re not related, but both of them were orphaned, and had no family. Now they do. The last relationship I had with a cat lasted over 20 years, so this could be interesting…

For all you dog lovers in the crowd, don’t worry, we’ll try to keep things equal. I mean, I still deal with all the dogs that seem to crap on my lawn way too frequently. I’m joking, we love all our animal friends. Except the birds. All birds must die! Ok, not all of them… Still, we’re not too fond of the birds… But what do you expect, we’re cat people now! (And oh what we have to look forward to!)

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