On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 05:22:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Anyone know why my giyf searches and man page readings are failing to > determine how to search the gnu/linux dictionaries for a phrase? > > I am not only phrase challenged, but simple search challenged it seems too :) > > For example "coup d'etat" appears in the definition for "coup", as a > sub-definition. > > The OED has various phrases, not just single words. I used to have > good examples of two word phrases which are primary dictionary > entries. > > NOTE: hyphenated phrases do work as expected eg: > dict helter-skelter > > Some non-hyphenated phrases from dictionary dot com's word of the day: > coup d'etat > lese majesty > ad rem I suspect (I don't have dict installed, so I'm only reading manpages.debian.net) that the solution it to specify a different "strategy" (`dict -s foo "phrase"`, see `dict -S` for available strategies). The dictd package (if you're using a local server) claims to support useful strategies such as "exact", "prefix", "re"/"regexp" and "substring". HTH
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