[w3m-dev-en 00730] Re: Patch for a more flexible dictionary lookup

* NEWS: rc: use_dictcommand, dictcommand
* main.c (execdict): use url_quote_conv() instead of cURLcode()
* proto.h (cURLcode): deleted
* doc-jp/README.dict: updated
From: Fumitoshi UKAI  <ukai@debian.or.jp>

[w3m-dev-en 00729] Re: Patch for a more flexible dictionary lookup
* config.h.dist (DICT): define
* configure (use_dict): default y
* fm.h (DICTCMD): deleted
	(UseDictCommand): added
	(DictCommand): added
* main.c (execdict): rewrite to use DictCommand, loadGeneralFile()
* rc.c (CMT_USE_DICTCOMMAND): added
	(CMT_DICTCOMMAND): added
	(params1): use_dictcommand, dictcommand added
* doc/README.dict: updated
From:  Tushar Samant <scribble@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/doc/README.dict b/doc/README.dict
index ecb32be..ec4f44d 100644
--- a/doc/README.dict
+++ b/doc/README.dict
@@ -4,36 +4,65 @@ Dictionary look-up hack for w3m
 
 If you have dictionary look-up command (like 'webster'), you can
 look a word in a document using w3m. This dictionary-lookup code
-was contributed by `Rubikitch' (rubikitch@ruby-lang.org).
+was contributed by `Rubikitch' (rubikitch@ruby-lang.org), and
+further modifed by Tushar Samant (scribble at pobox.com).
 
-2. INSTALL
+2. INSTALLATION
 
-To make use of dictionary look-up, you have to change compile 
-option by hand. After running configure, edit config.h and
-change
+To make use of dictionary look-up, you currently must change a
+compile option by hand. After running configure, edit config.h
+and change
 
 #undef USE_DICT
 
-into
+to
 
 #define USE_DICT
 
-and recompile w3m. (You have to recompile dict.c and keybind.c.)
+and recompile w3me (i.e. type "make install").
+Note that w3m/0.3+cvs-1.358 or later, USE_DICT is defined by default.
 
-Then prepare a command named 'w3mdict.' For example, if you want
-to use 'webster' command, do the following:
+Then find or install a CGI program which takes a word as a query
+string and prints a response.
 
-% cd /usr/local/bin
-% ln -s `which webster` w3mdict
+Some ways to do this would be:
 
-In general, w3mdict can be any command that takes a word as an
-argument and outputs something onto stdout.
+  * If you have the 'webster' command, put something like this
+    in a script called 'w3mdict':
+
+      #!/bin/sh
+
+      echo Content-type: text/plain
+      echo
+      webster $QUERY_STRING
+
+    Then install w3mdict as a local CGI (see the local CGI section
+    of the w3m manual), and set your dictionary options from the
+    options page of w3m (usually invoked with "o").
+
+  * If you want this function to look a word up on Google instead,
+    write a local CGI script like this:
+
+      #!/bin/sh
+
+      google_q='http://google.com/search?btnG=Google&q'
+
+      cat <<_END_
+      Content-type: text/plain
+      W3m-control: GOTO $google_q=$QUERY_STRING
+      W3m-control: DELETE_PREVBUF
+
+      _END_
+
+    and set its path as your dictionary-lookup URL option.
 
 3. USAGE
 
-You can use the following two commands.
+You can use the following two commands:
 
 ESC w    Input a word and look it up using w3mdict command.
 
 ESC W    look up the current word in the buffer.
 
+To change these keys, edit ~/.w3m/keymap and edit lines for the
+functions DICT_WORD and DICT_WORD_AT respectively.