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FILE: README.md
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[](https://melpa.org/#/define-word)
[](https://stable.melpa.org/#/define-word)
## Introduction
`define-word` is a GNU Emacs package that lets you see the definition
of a word or a phrase at point, without having to switch to a browser:

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FILE: define-word.el
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;;; define-word.el --- display the definition of word at point. -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; Copyright (C) 2015 Oleh Krehel
;; Author: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/abo-abo/define-word
;; Version: 0.1.0
;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24.3"))
;; Keywords: dictionary, convenience
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs
;; This file 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, 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.
;; For a full copy of the GNU General Public License
;; see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
;;
;; This package will send an anonymous request to https://wordnik.com/
;; to get the definition of word or phrase at point, parse the resulting HTML
;; page, and display it with `message'.
;;
;; Extra services can be added by customizing `define-word-services'
;; where an url, a parsing function, and an (optional) function other
;; than `message' to display the results can be defined.
;;
;; The HTML page is retrieved asynchronously, using `url-retrieve-link'.
;;
;;; Code:
(require 'url-parse)
(require 'url-http)
(require 'nxml-mode)
(defgroup define-word nil
"Define word at point using an online dictionary."
:group 'convenience
:prefix "define-word-")
(defvar define-word-limit 10
"Maximum amount of results to display.")
(defcustom define-word-displayfn-alist nil
"Alist for display functions per service.
By default, `message' is used."
:type '(alist
:key-type (symbol :tag "Name of service")
:value-type (function :tag "Display function")))
(defun define-word-displayfn (service)
"Return the display function for SERVICE."
(or (cdr (assoc service define-word-displayfn-alist))
#'message))
(defcustom define-word-services
'((wordnik "http://wordnik.com/words/%s" define-word--parse-wordnik)
(openthesaurus "https://www.openthesaurus.de/synonyme/%s" define-word--parse-openthesaurus)
(webster "http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/%s" define-word--parse-webster)
(offline-wikitionary define-word--get-offline-wikitionary nil))
"Services for define-word, A list of lists of the
format (symbol url function-for-parsing).
Instead of an url string, url can be a custom function for retrieving results."
:type '(alist
:key-type (symbol :tag "Name of service")
:value-type (group
(string :tag "Url (%s denotes search word)")
(function :tag "Parsing function"))))
(defcustom define-word-default-service 'wordnik
"The default service for define-word commands. Must be one of
`define-word-services'"
:type '(choice
(const wordnik)
(const openthesaurus)
(const webster)
(const offline-wikitionary)
symbol))
(defvar define-word-offline-dict-directory nil
"Path to the directory which contains \"en-en-withforms-enwiktionary.txt\".")
(defun define-word--get-offline-wikitionary (word)
(unless define-word-offline-dict-directory
(let ((url "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Matthias_Buchmeier/download"))
(user-error "Please download the ding (text-format) zip from %s and configure `%S'." url
'define-word-offline-dict-directory)))
(let* ((regex (concat "^" word " "))
(default-directory define-word-offline-dict-directory)
(res (shell-command-to-string
(concat "rg --no-filename --color never '" regex "'"))))
(unless (= 0 (length res))
res)))
(defun define-word--to-string (word service)
"Get definition of WORD from SERVICE."
(let* ((servicedata (assoc service define-word-services))
(retriever (nth 1 servicedata))
(parser (nth 2 servicedata))
(url-user-agent
(if (eq (nth 0 servicedata) 'wordnik)
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_5_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36"
url-user-agent)))
(if (functionp retriever)
(funcall retriever word)
;; adapted `url-insert-file-contents'
(let* ((url (format retriever (downcase word)))
(buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url t t)))
(with-temp-buffer
(url-insert-buffer-contents buffer url)
(funcall parser))))))
(defun define-word--expand (regex definition service)
(let ((case-fold-search nil))
(when (string-match regex definition)
(concat
definition
"\n" (match-string 1 definition) ":\n"
(mapconcat (lambda (s) (concat " " s))
(split-string
(define-word--to-string (match-string 1 definition) service)
"\n")
"\n")))))
;;;###autoload
(defun define-word (word service &optional choose-service)
"Define WORD using various services.
By default uses `define-word-default-service', but a prefix arg
lets the user choose service."
(interactive "MWord: \ni\nP")
(let* ((service (or service
(if choose-service
(intern
(completing-read
"Service: " define-word-services))
define-word-default-service)))
(results (define-word--to-string word service)))
(funcall
(define-word-displayfn service)
(cond ((not results)
"0 definitions found")
((define-word--expand "Plural form of \\(.*\\)\\.$" results service))
((define-word--expand "Past participle of \\(.*\\)\\.$" results service))
((define-word--expand "Present participle of \\(.*\\)\\.$" results service))
(t
results)))))
(declare-function pdf-view-active-region-text "ext:pdf-view")
;;;###autoload
(defun define-word-at-point (arg &optional service)
"Use `define-word' to define word at point.
When the region is active, define the marked phrase.
Prefix ARG lets you choose service.
In a non-interactive call SERVICE can be passed."
(interactive "P")
(let ((word
(cond
((eq major-mode 'pdf-view-mode)
(car (pdf-view-active-region-text)))
((use-region-p)
(buffer-substring-no-properties
(region-beginning)
(region-end)))
(t
(substring-no-properties
(thing-at-point 'word))))))
(define-word word service arg)))
(defface define-word-face-1
'((t :inherit font-lock-keyword-face))
"Face for the part of speech of the definition.")
(defface define-word-face-2
'((t :inherit default))
"Face for the body of the definition")
(defun define-word--join-results (results)
(mapconcat
#'identity
(if (> (length results) define-word-limit)
(cl-subseq results 0 define-word-limit)
results)
"\n"))
(defun define-word--regexp-to-face (regexp face)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward regexp nil t)
(let ((match (match-string 1)))
(replace-match
(propertize match 'face face)))))
(defconst define-word--tag-faces
'(("<\\(?:em\\|i\\)>\\(.*?\\)</\\(?:em\\|i\\)>" italic)
("<xref>\\(.*?\\)</xref>" link)
("<strong>\\(.*?\\)</strong>" bold)
("<internalXref.*?>\\(.*?\\)</internalXref>" default)))
(defun define-word--convert-html-tag-to-face (str)
"Replace semantical HTML markup in STR with the relevant faces."
(with-temp-buffer
(insert str)
(cl-loop for (regexp face) in define-word--tag-faces do
(define-word--regexp-to-face regexp face))
(buffer-string)))
(defun define-word--parse-wordnik ()
"Parse output from wordnik site and return formatted list"
(save-match-data
(let (results beg part)
(while (re-search-forward "<li><abbr[^>]*>\\([^<]*\\)</abbr>" nil t)
(setq part (match-string 1))
(unless (= 0 (length part))
(setq part (concat part " ")))
(skip-chars-forward " ")
(setq beg (point))
(when (re-search-forward "</li>")
(push (concat (propertize part 'face 'define-word-face-1)
(propertize
(buffer-substring-no-properties beg (match-beginning 0))
'face 'define-word-face-2))
results)))
(when (setq results (nreverse results))
(define-word--convert-html-tag-to-face (define-word--join-results results))))))
(defun define-word--parse-webster ()
"Parse definition from webstersdictionary1828.com."
(save-match-data
(goto-char (point-min))
(let (results def-type)
(while (re-search-forward "<p><strong>\\(?:[[:digit:]]\\.\\)?.*</strong>\\(.*?\\)</p>" nil t)
(save-match-data
(save-excursion
(re-search-backward "<p><strong>[A-Z'.]*</strong>, <em>\\(.*?\\)</em>")
(let ((match (match-string 1)))
(setq def-type
(cond
((equal match "adjective") "adj.")
((equal match "noun") "n.")
((equal match "verb intransitive") "v.")
((equal match "verb transitive") "vt.")
(t ""))))))
(push
(concat
(propertize def-type 'face 'bold)
(define-word--convert-html-tag-to-face (match-string 1)))
results))
(when (setq results (nreverse results))
(define-word--join-results results)))))
(defun define-word--parse-openthesaurus ()
"Parse output from openthesaurus site and return formatted list"
(save-match-data
(let (results part beg)
(goto-char (point-min))
(nxml-mode)
(while (re-search-forward "<sup>" nil t)
(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
(setq beg (point))
(nxml-forward-element)
(delete-region beg (point)))
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward
"<span class='wiktionaryItem'> [0-9]+.</span>\\([^<]+\\)<" nil t)
(setq part (match-string 1))
(backward-char)
(push (string-trim part) results))
(when (setq results (nreverse results))
(define-word--join-results results)))))
(provide 'define-word)
;;; define-word.el ends here
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