stardict(1)

πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

okay bestie, meet StarDict β€” a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk. she's the loml fr fr 🌸


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stardict

or... just select StarDict from the Utility submenu of the Applications menu 🫢 like, either way, you're getting your word definitions, no cap.


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary written in Gtk. she's giving main character energy and honestly she ate πŸ’…

she comes with powerful features, and I mean powerful:

  • "Glob-style pattern matching," β€” yes girl, pattern matching
  • "Scan selection word," β€” highlight it and she just knows πŸ™ˆ
  • "Fuzzy query," β€” for when your spelling is not exactly slaying today 😭
  • and etc., which is literally the vibe

for the full documentation, see the StarDict GNOME Help Documentation ⭐


πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • -h β€” do not show the splash screen. periodt. that's the whole option list, she's a minimal queen πŸ‘‘
not me noticing there's literally only one flag... iconic behaviour honestly

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

the lore is deep, bestie, let me put you on 🧚

  • StarDict 1.31 (using Motif/LessTif) was originally written by Ma Su'an <msa@wri.com.cn> in 1999.
  • StarDict 1.33+ (enhancement) was written by Opera Wang <wangvisual@sohu.com> in 2002.
  • StarDict 2.0.0 was written by Hu Zheng <huzheng001@gmail.com>.
  • This manual page was written by Hu Zheng <huzheng001@gmail.com>.

three separate eras of devs feeding us?? the dedication is highkey unmatched πŸ”₯


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

iykyk πŸ’œ


and that's a wrap on the General Commands Manual page for stardict(1), dated 28 Nov 2020. stay slaying, and go look up some words bestie πŸ“βœ¨