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Looking up meaning of words inside Vim, Bash and Zsh using StarDict Command-Line Version (SDCV) dictionary program. If you find it useful, please Star it.

vim-stardict

Project maintained by Phong V. Cao

A Vim plugin for looking up meaning of words inside Vim, Bash and Zsh using the StarDict Command-Line Version (SDCV) dictionary program.

In addition to opening a Vim split and populating it with the output of StarDict Command-Line Version (SDCV), vim-stardict takes advantage of Vim syntax highlighting and some basic regexes to present the words' definitions to the users in an organized and user-friendly way.

The plugin was inspired and originally a fork of chusiang/vim-sdcv.

Screenshots

Lookup word under cursor in a :split (using :StarDictCursor command)

Lookup word in a :vsplit (using :StarDict command)

Lookup word in Bash (using 'stardict' command)

Redirect Bash output to Vim (using 'vstardict' command)

Installation

Before installing vim-stardict , the following applications need to be already installed in your computer:

• SDCV

There are several ways to install vim-stardict:

• Pathogen
  • git clone https://github.com/phongvcao/vim-stardict.git
• NeoBundle
  • NeoBundle 'phongvcao/vim-stardict'
• Vundle
  • Plugin 'phongvcao/vim-stardict'
• Manual
  • Copy all of the files into your ~/.vim directory

Usage

1. Vim:

To lookup the meaning of a word with no-space-in-between:

:StarDict random_word_with_no_spaces

To lookup the meaning of a word with spaces-in-between, put it inside quotation marks (both double and single quotes are acceptable):

:StarDict "random word with spaces"
:StarDict 'random word with spaces'

To look up the meaning of several words (either no-spaces-in-between or spaces-in-between):

:StarDict first_word second_word "third word" 'fourth word'
:StarDict "first word" 'second word'

To lookup the meaning of a word under-the-cursor:

:StarDictCursor

2. Bash:

To lookup the meaning of a word with no-space-in-between:

stardict random_word_with_no_spaces

To lookup the meaning of a word with spaces-in-between, put it inside quotation marks (both double and single quotes are acceptable):

stardict "random word with spaces"
stardict 'random word with spaces'

To look up the meaning of several words (either no-spaces-in-between or spaces-in-between):

stardict first_word second_word "third word" 'fourth word'
stardict "first word" 'second word'

To view the meaning of word in Vim from Bash or Zsh:

vstardict first_word second_word "third word" 'fourth word'

Configuration

1. Vim:

Sample configuration for your .vimrc (more in the official documentation)

    " Make vim-stardict split open in a :split (default value)
    let g:stardict_split_horizontal = 1

    " Set vim-stardict split width (or height) to 20 based on whether
    " vim-stardict split is a :vsplit (or :split)
	let g:stardict_split_size = 20

	" This option should only be set if your Vim is compiled with +python
	" and -python3 options (in other words, if your Vim doesn't support
	" Python 3):
	" let g:stardict_prefer_python3 = 0

	" Map vim-stardict's commands
	" Ready for typing the word in
    nnoremap <leader>sw :StarDict<Space>
	" Lookup the word under cursor
	nnoremap <leader>sc :StarDictCursor<CR>

	" OPTIONAL: You can change the colors of output of vim-stardict inside
	" Vim as follow (see below for the comprehensive list of highlight
	" group):
	" highlight link stardictResult Special              " Default value
	" highlight link stardictWord PreProc                " Default value
	" highlight link stardictWordType Statement          " Default value
	" highlight link stardictWordMeaning Identifier      " Default value
	" highlight link stardictWordExample Type            " Default value
	" highlight link stardictDictName Underlined         " Default value

For the full list of highlight groups in Vim, you can consult :help group-name

2. Bash and Zsh:

Sample configuration for your .bashrc (.zshrc is similar - please consult the documentation) (supposed you use Vundle to manage your plugins):

    # Export vim-stardict installation directory
    # NOTE: Only do this if your vim-stardict installation directory is other
    # than ${HOME}/.vim/bundle/vim-stardict. In other words, uncomment these
    # lines if you are not using Vundle, Pathogen or NeoBundle to manage your
    # Vim plugins:
    export STARDICT_DIR="{HOME}/.vim/bundle/vim-stardict"

	# For Bash: Source the stardict.sh file in the vim-stardict installation
    # directory.
    # For Zsh: The path to the stardict.zsh file is
    # "${HOME}"/.vim/bundle/vim-stardict/bindings/zsh/stardict.zsh
    if [[ -f "${HOME}"/.vim/bundle/vim-stardict/bindings/bash/stardict.sh ]]; then
        source "${HOME}"/.vim/bundle/vim-stardict/bindings/bash/stardict.sh
	fi

	# To avoid typing the long & daunting 'stardict' & 'vstardict'
	# commands, you can alias it to something else
	alias whatis="stardict"
	alias whatvim="vstardict"

	# OPTIONAL: You can change the colors of output of vim-stardict inside
	# Bash (see below for the comprehensive list of color codes in Bash):
	# export STARDICT_RESULT="\033[0;31m"            # Defaut value
	# export STARDICT_WORD="\033[0;91m"              # Defaut value
	# export STARDICT_WORD_TYPE="\033[0;32m"         # Defaut value
	# export STARDICT_WORD_MEANING="\033[0;34m"      # Defaut value
	# export STARDICT_WORD_EXAMPLE="\033[0;33m"      # Defaut value
	# export STARDICT_DICT_NAME="\033[0;95m"         # Defaut value

For the full list of color codes in Bash and Zsh, you can consult this link

You can change whatis and whatvim above to whatever aliases you like. Also, you can change the path to source the stardict.sh file above, if your Vim plugin directory is different.

With the above configuration, you can issue these commands to find meaning of words:

whatis first_word second_word "third word" 'fourth word'
whatvim first_word second_word "third word" 'fourth word'

Documentation

• See :help vim-stardict VimDoc for more information.

Contributors

• See vim-stardict contributors

Thank you to you all!

Report Bugs

• If you find a bug please do not hesitate to post it (along with a screenshot of the bug, if applicable) on our Github issue tracker.

Credits

• Special thanks to chusiang from whom I got the original idea from.

Todo

vim-stardict is currently under heavy development. Your contributions and patches are highly appreciated.

• Add support for Windows
• Implement word lookup in Visual Mode (look up the selected text)
• Once opened under :StarDictCursor mode, whenever the mouse move to a new word, vim-stardict automatically looks up for that word (let g:stardict_lookup_on_mousemove)