edict.el and edict

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

Lots of dictionaries and tools at:

ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html

Found the emacs interface to edict.

     Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Per Hammarlund (perham@example.com)


This is documentation for some emacs lisp code that looks for
translations of English and Japanese using the EDICTJ Public Domain
Japanese/English dictionary.

This software, called edict, helps nemacs/mule users to use the public
domain Japanese-English dictionary EDICT.  (It is sometimes called
EDICTJ, but it is the same thing.)

Edict is a set of functions that it helps you to perform:

* Search for an English word.  With one key command, ie "<ESC>*", the
English word under or in front of the point is used as the key in a
search of EDICT.  The matching words are shown in a window that is not
selected, edict also tries to make the window fit snugly around the
matches.

* Search for a kanji/kana sequence.  Here you mark a region, and then
with one key command, ie "<ESC>_", that region is used as the key in a
search of EDICTJ.  The matches are presented as above.  Edict will
attempt to transform the character sequence 


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I have not tested it yet, but have archived it on the TWICS server
so I can test tonight.

      ftp://ftp.twics.co.jp/unix/linux/utils/text/edictel.tar.gz
      ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edictel.tar.g



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