DICT_LOOKUP(1)

💖 dict_lookup — the NAME section, bestie 💖

okay so this is dict_lookup, and it's literally a DICT Protocol Client ✨ that's the whole vibe. one job. iconic behavior. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dict_lookuop [options]

🫶 bestie yes that's really how it's spelled up there, i'm not gonna "fix" it for you, we keep it exactly as it is, periodt.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕: dict_lookup reads your X selection, and then it opens up a terminal emulator and runs a dict client inside it, so you can actually scroll through the content using a pager. 🦋

and like… it genuinely makes sense to bind launching dict_lookup to a keyboard shortcut in your window manager. that's the intended main character move, no cap. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — displays the help message. that's it, that's the whole thing, she's helpful. 🙈
• -x x — X coordinate of the terminal emulator. (yes it's lowercase x as the value, we don't question the lore) 📍
• -x Y — Y coordinate of the terminal emulator. (and yes, -x shows up a second time here in the original, i'm just telling you what it says, i don't make the rules 😭)
• -s WxH — width and height of the terminal emulator, separated by an x. size her up. 📐
• -q query — the query! and here's the slay part: if you specify it, the X selection is not read. skipping the whole selection step, straight to business. ⭐

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

dict_lookup recognizes these environment variables, bestie. the default value is chillin' in square brackets. 🌈

• D_AWK_PROG — the AWK interpreter to use. [awk]
• D_XCLIP_PROG — the xclip application. [xclip]
• D_XTERM_PROG — xterm or an equivalent terminal emulator. [xterm]
• D_UTF8_LOCALE — the UTF-8 locale. [en_US.UTF-8]
• D_DICT_PROG — the dictionary client program. [dict]
• D_DICT_SERVER — the option for the dictionary client that specifies the server. [-h dict.org]
• D_DICT_PORT — the option for the dictionary client that specifies the port. [-p 2628]
• D_DICT_DB_OPT — the option for the dictionary client that specifies the database. [-d foldoc]
• D_XTERM_CLASS — the option for the terminal emulator that specifies the class. [-class XTerm]
• D_XTERM_NAME — the option for the terminal emulator that specifies the name. [-name xterm_dict]
• D_XTERM_TITLE — the option for the terminal emulator that specifies the title. [-title dict_lookup]
• D_TEXT_WIDTH — the program that calculates text width for a given text. [cyrillic_text_width] 🚨 heads up though: cyrillic_text_width doesn't work correctly for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and some other languages. noted, not hidden, we tell the truth here. 💀
• D_TERM_X — the terminal emulator X coordinate. [+200]
• D_TERM_Y — the terminal emulator Y coordinate. [+200]
• D_TERM_H — the terminal emulator height. [+40]
• D_PAGER — the pager. [less]

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're the friend group: dict(1), less(1), xterm(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org, and RFC 2229. 🔥

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💜 and that's the whole page!! this one's from 9 January 2011, and it's page DICT_LOOKUP(1) of the manual. fr fr, you understood all of it, i'm so proud of you, go look up some words bestie 🫶✨🎀