NAME¶
ding - dictionary lookup program for Unix
SYNOPSIS¶
ding [options] [phrase]
DESCRIPTION¶
ding is a dictionary lookup program for X Windows/Unix. It comes with a
German-English dictionary with about 270,000 entries.
It is based on Tk version >= 8.3 and uses the
agrep(1) or
egrep(1) tools for searching.
In addition to this
ding can also search using
ispell(1) and
dict(1).
It has many configuration options, such as search preferences, interface
language (English or German), colors. It has history and help functions and
comes with useful key and mouse bindings for quick and easy lookups.
If you enter some word or phrase as command line argument,
ding will
start up with a translation of this word/phrase.
OPTIONS¶
- -x, --selection
- Start searching for selected word (X selection).
- -m, --mini
- Start with minimal size (search form only).
- -r, --remote
- Start search in an already running program.
- -R, --remote-new
- Start search in an already running program or start a new program.
- --noconf
- Do not save preferences
- -D #, --debug #
- Start with debug output, # = number (1..15).
USAGE¶
It's very simple: Start
ding (via KDE menu "Tools" or via
command line), type in search word, press ENTER, read results. Search further
by double-clicking a word, or select a word in another window and drop it by
clicking with mouse button 2 over the "ding window". For further
information consult the program help by pressing F1.
SEE ALSO¶
agrep(1),
egrep(1),
ispell(1),
ding(1).
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
/usr/share/doc/ding/html/index.html
AUTHOR¶
ding was written by Frank Richter
<frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>.
This manual page was written by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).