utilyre / dictate

CLI utility for looking up words in online dictionary

dictate

Lookup words in dictionaryapi.dev right from the terminal without interrupting your workflow.

📦 Installation

• crates.io

  cargo install dictate

🚀 Usage

• Lookup "hello" in the dictionary

  dictate lookup hello

  NOTE: This also caches the output for later lookups.

• Clean up the cached entries

  dictate clean -c

💻 Shell Completion

• Bash

  1. Run the following

     mkdir -p ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions
     dictate complete bash > ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/rustup

  2. Restart bash and you should have tab-completion now.

• Zsh

  1. Append ~/.zfunc to fpath in your zsh config

     NOTICE: Make sure to insert the following line before initializing compinit.

     fpath+=("$HOME/.zfunc")

  2. Create the appended directory and dump completion definition to ~/.zfunc/_dictate

     mkdir -p ~/.zfunc
     dictate complete zsh > ~/.zfunc/_dictate

  3. Restart zsh and you should have tab-completion now.

  NOTE: In case it's not working yet, delete ~/.zcompdump and restart your shell again.

• Fish

  1. Run the following

     mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/completions
     dictate complete fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/rustup.fish

  2. Restart fish and you should have tab-completion now.