That said, you might want to just install the Services plugin and then activate the Look up in Dictionary action. That'll open Dictionary.app and show you definitions there. In my experience, those results are often of better quality than the results from dict.org.
On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 8:37:06 PM UTC-7, Jon Stovell wrote: > > That plugin is pretty old. It last received an update in 2011. > > You can replace its main functionality pretty easily though. If you have > the Web Search Plugin installed, just create a custom Web Search entry in > QS's catalogue named "dict.org" using this address: > > http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=*** > > Now enter text into the first pane, choose the Find With... action in the > second pane, and choose dict.org in the third pane. This will open the > results in a web browser rather than in the floating palette that the > dict.org plugin would pop up, but you'll get the info you wanted. :) > > On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 6:53:27 PM UTC-7, DrFred wrote: >> >> Back in OS X 10.6, with the then current iteration of QS, I could type . >> (dot) then a word then second pane could show "define with dict.org." A >> popup sheet would appear with a detailed definition from several sources, >> including synonyms. No longer available in 1.2.2 (4011) QS running >> Yosemite. Any chance of getting that back? >> >> Fred Weiner >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
