Re: dict - phrase challenged

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 5/1/14, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 03:22 AM, 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?

As posted already, this is the solution that works:

dict ad\\\ rem

> Why not install Artha? It can handle multi-word phrases.  It is
> quite comprehensive as a dictionary. Its only weirdness is that
> it seems to think most words are very rare!

arthur:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=
0.78), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libx11-6,
wordnet

dict:
Depends : netbase, recode, libc6 (>= 2.14), libmaa3 (>= 1.2.0)

To use arthur implies using a GUI. That's why.

But may be arthur works at the command line too. I don't know.

But dict works just fine for my needs ... I like its simplicity.

Thanks for the hint though, I had not known of arthur before.

Regards
Zenaan