That works, thank you. At 10:50 PM 6/10/2006 -0400, John W. Bairen, Jr. wrote: >Hey Bennett, > >Welcome to DQSD. > >That would be correct, except... > >That feature (using : for a dictionary) is done via an alias. In a fairly >recent build, we removed many of the default aliases. The web page just >hasn't been updated to reflect this. > >Here is how you correct this... (it is pretty easy) > >1. click on the >> thing on your DQSD search box (this is called a >chevron) >2. a menu should open. >3. go up to "configure" ... "local aliases" (be sure and edit "local >aliases" as "system aliases" get overwritten at upgrade time). >4. make a line in your localaliases.txt file that looks like this (can >copy/paste) > > >:|mwd %s > > >5. Save and close the file. >6. Click on the DQSD chevron again... Configure... Reload. > >Now the following should work for you... > >: sunshine >sunshine : > > >Let us know if this doesn't help. >JB > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Bennett Haselton > > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 5:41 PM > > To: dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [DQSD-Users] definition: feature not working for me > > > > I just installed DQSD on Windows XPSP2, and it looks like a > > nitfy time-and-click-saver, but I can't get the definition: > > feature to work for me. The home page at http://dqsd.net/ > > says 'get Merriam-Webster definitions with a "colon:"' and I > > interpreted that to mean that if I type > > sunshine: in the query box then I would jump to the > > dictionary definition of 'sunshine'. However, it interprets > > this as a Google search for "sunshine:" (without the quotes) > > and takes me here: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=&cat=&meta=&num=&ie=utf-8&q=su > > nshine%3A > > > > Same problem with the other searches which are supposed to > > lead to places other than Google -- searching on "msft$" > > doesn't lead to stocks and "Lois Lane#" doesn't lead to a > > Switchboard lookup, they all just go to the Google page. > > > > -Bennett > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peacefire.org > > (425) 497 9002 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe visit: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users > > DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe visit: >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users >DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net >http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
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