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author | Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org> | 2021-01-02 00:20:37 +0000 |
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committer | Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org> | 2021-01-02 00:20:37 +0000 |
commit | 1d0ba25a660483da1272a31dd077ed94441e3d9f (patch) | |
tree | 1d8dee52cd1e3d340fe178a8193dc96c4496db84 /scripts/w3mdict.cgi | |
parent | Merge branch 'cvstrunk' into upstream (diff) | |
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New upstream version 0.5.3+git20210102upstream/0.5.3+git20210102upstream
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diff --git a/scripts/w3mdict.cgi b/scripts/w3mdict.cgi new file mode 100755 index 0000000..6b0e62e --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/w3mdict.cgi @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# w3mdict.cgi - A dictd dictionary query cgi for w3m +# +# REQUIREMENTS: +# + dict client software +# + an address of a dict server, for variable ${DICT_SERVER} +# + a name of a favorite database on that server, for variable +# ${FAVORITE_DATABASE} +# OPTIONALLY: +# + locally install a dict server (eg. dictd) and a collection +# of dict databases (eg. wordnet, aka "wn") + +DICT_SERVER="localhost" +FAVORITE_DATABASE="wn" +RETURN_MESSAGE="\n\nPress 'B' to return to the previous page." +printf "Content-type: text/plain\n" +type dict \ +|| { + # Originally, we inconsiderately failed silently ... + # printf "W3m-control: BACK\n\n" + printf "\n\nERROR: dict client software not found${RETURN_MESSAGE}" + exit + } +# First, we check only our best and favorite database. This is most +# likely to give us a best defintion, and avoids displaying a long and +# cluttered page with entries from many databases. +dict --host "${DICT_SERVER}" \ + --database "${FAVORITE_DATABASE}" \ + "${QUERY_STRING}" 2>&1 \ +&& { + printf "${RETURN_MESSAGE}" + } \ +|| { + # The initial attempt failed, so let's search ALL databases + # available on the server. + dict --host "${DICT_SERVER}" \ + "${QUERY_STRING}" 2>&1 \ + && { + printf "${RETURN_MESSAGE}" + } \ + || { + # No defintions were found in any of the server's databases, so + # let's return to the favorite database in order to retrieve its + # guess of what we meant to type. Originally, for this case, we + # pushed the user's default action to be entering another word for + # a dict defintion, so the print command was: + # printf "W3m-control: DICT_WORD\n\n" + # Now, we need only print a blank line to separate the cgi header + # from the page content. + printf "\n" + dict --host "${DICT_SERVER}" \ + --database "${FAVORITE_DATABASE}" \ + "${QUERY_STRING}" 2>&1 + printf "${RETURN_MESSAGE}" + } + } |