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Displaying content through Dictionary.app
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;;; dict-app.el --- Displaying content through Dictionary.app | |
;; | |
;; Copyright (C) 2014 Takaaki ISHIKAWA | |
;; | |
;; Author: Takaaki ISHIKAWA <takaxp at ieee dot org> | |
;; Maintainer: Takaaki ISHIKAWA <takaxp at ieee dot org> | |
;; Twitter: @takaxp | |
;; Repository: | |
;; Keywords: dictionary, dictionary.app | |
;; | |
;; Committers: | |
;; | |
;; This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or | |
;; (at your option) any later version. | |
;; | |
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
;; | |
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the | |
;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, | |
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
;; | |
;;; Requirement: | |
;; | |
;;; Usage: | |
;; 1. Put this elisp into your load-path | |
;; 2. Add (require 'dict-app) in your .emacs | |
;; 3. Call dict-app-search on a query word | |
;; | |
;;; Recommended minimum settings: | |
;; | |
;;; Note: | |
;; - this elisp is based on a lisp shared in http://sakito.jp/mac/dictionary.html | |
;; - | |
(defconst dict-app "1.0.1" | |
"The version number of the dict-app.el") | |
(defgroup dict-app nil | |
"User variables for dict-app." | |
:group 'dict-app) | |
(defvar dict-app-mode-map | |
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) | |
(define-key map (kbd "q") 'dict-app-quit) | |
map) | |
"The default key bindings for dict-app.") | |
(defvar dict-app-mode nil) | |
(defvar display-dict-app-string nil) | |
(defvar dict-app-buffer-name "dict-app-result") | |
(defvar dict-bin-name "dict.py" | |
"dict.py is CLI for connecting with Dictionary.app. | |
This command should be placed in exec-path. | |
see also http://sakito.jp/mac/dictionary.html.") | |
;;;###autoload | |
(define-minor-mode dict-app-mode | |
"Displaying content through Dictionary.app. | |
Usage: | |
" | |
:lighter " D" | |
:keymap dict-app-mode-map | |
:group 'dict-app | |
) | |
;;;###autoload | |
(defun dict-app-search () | |
"Lookup a word through Dictionary.app." | |
(interactive) | |
(cond | |
(;; on the dict-app-result buffer | |
(equal (buffer-name) dict-app-buffer-name) | |
(setq buffer-read-only nil) | |
(set-buffer-modified-p t)) | |
;; not on the dict-app-buffer-name, but dict-app-buffer-name exists | |
((get-buffer dict-app-buffer-name) | |
(kill-buffer dict-app-buffer-name)) | |
(t nil)) | |
(let ((editable (not buffer-read-only)) | |
(pt (save-excursion (mouse-set-point last-nonmenu-event))) | |
beg end) | |
(if (and mark-active | |
(<= (region-beginning) pt) (<= pt (region-end)) ) | |
(setq beg (region-beginning) | |
end (region-end)) | |
(save-excursion | |
(goto-char pt) | |
(setq end (progn (forward-word) (point))) | |
(setq beg (progn (backward-word) (point))) | |
)) | |
(let ((word (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)) | |
(tmpbuf dict-app-buffer-name)) | |
(pop-to-buffer tmpbuf) | |
(erase-buffer) | |
(insert "Query: " word "\n\n") | |
(start-process "dict-process" tmpbuf dict-bin-name word) | |
(goto-char 0) | |
(dict-app-mode t) | |
(setq buffer-read-only t) | |
(set-buffer-modified-p nil)))) | |
;;;###autoload | |
(defun dict-app-quit () | |
"Delete the window and quit dict-app." | |
(interactive) | |
(when (equal (buffer-name) dict-app-buffer-name) | |
(delete-window) | |
(kill-buffer dict-app-buffer-name)) | |
(da-abort) | |
(message "Quit")) | |
;;; Internal functions ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; | |
(defun da-setup () | |
;; do nothing | |
) | |
(defun da-abort () | |
;; do nothing | |
) | |
(provide 'dict-app) | |
;;; dict-app.el ends here |
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