NAME
ding - dictionary lookup program for Unix
SYNOPSIS
ding [options]
[phrase]
DESCRIPTION
ding is a dictionary lookup program for
X Windows/Unix. It comes with a German-English dictionary with
about 185,000 entries.
It is based on Tk version >= 8.3 and uses the agrep(1) or
egrep(1)
tools for searching.
In addition to this ding can also search using
ispell(1)
and dict(1).
It has many configuration options, such as search preferences,
interface language (English or German), colors. It has history and
help functions and comes with useful key and mouse bindings for
quick and easy lookups.
If you enter some word or phrase as command line argument,
ding will start up with a translation of this word/phrase.
OPTIONS
- -x, --selection
- Start searching for selected word (X selection).
- -m, --mini
- Start with minimal size (search form only).
- -r, --remote
- Start search in an already running program.
- -R, --remote-new
- Start search in an already running program or start a new
program.
- --noconf
- Do not save preferences
- -D #, --debug #
- Start with debug output, # = number
(1..15).
USAGE
It's very simple: Start ding (via KDE menu
"Tools" or via command line), type in search word, press ENTER,
read results. Search further by double-clicking a word, or select a
word in another window and drop it by clicking with mouse button 2
over the "ding window". For further information consult the program
help by pressing F1.
SEE ALSO
agrep(1),
egrep(1),
ispell(1),
ding(1).
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
/usr/share/doc/ding/html/index.html
AUTHOR
ding was written by Frank Richter
<frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>.
This manual page was written by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).