/youdao-dictionary.el

Youdao Dictionary(有道词典) interface for Emacs

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

Youdao Dictionary interface for Emacs

http://melpa.org/packages/youdao-dictionary-badge.svg http://stable.melpa.org/packages/youdao-dictionary-badge.svg

youdao-dictionary is a simple Youdao Dictionary (有道词典) interface for Emacs.

Installation

Install youdao-dictionary from MELPA with:

M-x package-install RET youdao-dictionary RET

Usage

youdao-dictionary-search-at-point
Search word at point and display result with buffer
youdao-dictionary-search-at-point+
Search word at point and display result with popup-tip
youdao-dictionary-search-from-input
Search word from input and display result with buffer
youdao-dictionary-search-and-replace
Search word at point and display result with popup-menu, replace word with selected translation.
youdao-dictionary-play-voice-at-point
Play voice of word at point (by @snyh)
youdao-dictionary-play-voice-from-input
Play voice of word from input (by @snyh)

Sample configuration

;; Enable Cache
(setq url-automatic-caching t)

;; Example Key binding
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c y") 'youdao-dictionary-search-at-point)

;; Integrate with popwin-el (https://github.com/m2ym/popwin-el)
;; (push "*Youdao Dictionary*" popwin:special-display-config)

;; Set file path for saving search history
;; (setq youdao-dictionary-search-history-file "~/.emacs.d/.youdao")

;; Enable Chinese word segmentation support (支持中文分词)
;; (setq youdao-dictionary-use-chinese-word-segmentation t)

Notes: A external Chinese word segmentation tool (e.g. 结巴分词) is needed to enable Chinese word segmentation support. For more info, see chinese-word-at-point.el#prerequisite.

Related tool

ydcv
YouDao Console Version
fanyi
A translate tool in your command line (supports both Youdao and iciba)