Hovering-Dictionary is a VSCode extension for looking up words your mouse cursor is indicating.
This extension is inspired by Mouse Dictionary (MIT License, wtetsu, 2018).
日本語の説明 (For Japanese) → https://qiita.com/take_me/items/3b102e7569af8791f926
Fast looking up words with case sensitivity
(Note that this demonstration was held after importing 英辞郎(EIJIRO) dictionary data, see #importing-dictionaries. Many expressions such as "on one's own" are NOT included in the default dictionary.)
Mouse Dictionary provides a very fast and flexible way to refer to a dictionary. By partially using the code in this Chrome extension, I realize its similar function in VSCode!
- Fast reference: It usually takes only less than 1 ms to obtain the reference to the words your mouse indicates.
- Case-sensitive search: camelCase -> camel case, snake_case -> snake case, etc...
- Expandability: You can import many other dictionary data if you want.
You can toggle the visibility of the hover by simply clicking the right side button or the command hovering-dictionary.toggle-hover-visibility.
I recommend registering this command hovering-dictionary.toggle-hover-visibility as a short-cut key.
This extension includes the default dictionary provided in ejdict-hand (Public Domain). In addition, you can import any dictionary formats you could import in Mouse Dictionary.
You can import the dictionaries via the command hovering-dictionary.import-dictionary.
This page which shows much information about some kinds of available dictionary files is also helpful.
git clone https://github.com/Take-Me1010/vscode-hovering-dictionary.git
cd vscode-hovering-dictionary
yarn # or npm i
code .
# debug this extension by F5 key.This extension uses Level as a database in the background.
The dictionary data is registered and kept in the storage directory the VSCode allows; e.g. C:\Users\hoge\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\take-me1010.hovering-dictionary if you are a Windows user.