Another possibility is to bookmark
https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=016147560673599814097:rhtkeo7p3cy -
but that might be considered leaving the J session.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrote up a script to do this and posted it to the wiki in case anyone
> else finds it useful
>
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JoeBogner/InlineDictionary
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> jhs makes rendering it a snap
>>
>> html=:gethttp_wgethttp_ 'http://www.jsoftware.com/help/',page,'.htm'
>> jhtml html
>>
>> that could work for now
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a utility to query the dictionary in the J session without
>>> causing a web browser to open?
>>>
>>> It'd be similar to context sensitive help but brings the result text
>>> right into the session. It might need some logic to reformat the HTML into
>>> a readable plain text representation
>>>
>>> Along those sames lines, is there a way to invoke the help without using
>>> context sensitive help? Something like  help ';' even if that opens up the
>>> browser that could be helpful instead of searching manually or typing the
>>> word and hitting ctrl+f1
>>>
>>> If it's not written already, it looks like it wouldn't be too much work
>>> using jqt as a starting point
>>>
>>> require '~addons/ide/qt/help.ijs'
>>> require '~addons/web/gethttp/gethttp.ijs'
>>>
>>> help=:conew 'jqtide'
>>>
>>>
>>> ] page=.helpsel__help ';'
>>>
>>> NB. dictionary/d330
>>>
>>>
>>> gethttp_wgethttp_ 'http://www.jsoftware.com/help/',page,'.htm'
>>>
>>> As mentioned, this would need some parsing logic to make it more readable
>>>
>>>
>>
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