Off-line dictionary? [was Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord]

From: ephemeron (ephemeron@fastmail.fm)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 15:35:22 EDT

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: Off-line dictionary? [was Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord]"

    On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:47:16 +0100 (IST)
    Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:

    > > > I did not know what a LART was so i STFW (searched the web)
    > > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/LART.html
    > > > The Jargon File comes in handy agian
    > > >
    > > > LART //
    > > >
    > > > Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. [...]
    > >
    > > All I did was type dict LART at the console. Wouldn't it be nice if
    > > abiword has a dict client plugin?
    >
    > what you mean like this
    > http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml
    >
    > URLDict Plugin
    > This plugin will give you access to an online dictionary directly from
    > within AbiWord.

    Correct me if I'm wrong. But this implementation chains you to the web.
    So I have to be on-line just to know the meaning of STFW. If the plugin
    uses instead the dict protocol, I could use my local dict server from
    within AbiWord.

    $ dict STFW
    1 definition found

    From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:

      STFW imp. /S-T-F-W/ [Usenet] Commmon abbreviation for "Search The
         Fucking Web", a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better
         handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and
         exactly parallel to both senses of {RTFM}.
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