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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/lisp/packages/webster-www.el Mon Aug 13 09:24:17 2007 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +;;; webster-www.el --- Look up a word in WWW Merriam-Webster dictionary + +;; Copyright (c) 1997 by Tomasz J. Cholewo <t.cholewo@ieee.org> + +;; Created: 1997/03/10 +;; Version: 1.0 +;; Keywords: comm, hypermedia + +;; This file is part of XEmacs. + +;; XEmacs 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 2, or (at your option) +;; any later version. + +;; XEmacs 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. + +;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free +;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA +;; 02111-1307, USA. + +;;; Synched up with: not in FSF. + +;;; Code: + +(defvar webster-url "http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mweb?book=Dictionary&va=" + "URL to reference for Webster's dictionary.") + +;;;###autoload +(defun webster-www (arg) +"Look up a word in the Webster's dictionary at http://www.m-w.com using WWW." + (interactive (list + (let ((prompt (concat "Look up word in webster (" + (current-word) "): "))) + (read-string prompt)))) + (require 'url) + (require 'w3-forms) + (if (equal "" arg) (setq arg (current-word))) + (funcall browse-url-browser-function + (concat + webster-url + (w3-form-encode-xwfu arg)))) + +(provide 'webster-www) + +;;; webster-www.el ends here