MED Open Search 2.2 standalone Mac app

MED Open Search 2.2

MED Open Search is a standalone Mac app for easier, faster searching of the Middle English Dictionary. It has been tested on an M1 MacBook Air. If your Mac is different, let me know if you have any trouble.

The zip file includes the app, which you can put in your app folder like any other app. It also includes MED Open Click.user.js, which is a userscript you can run with a userscript manager like Tampermonkey to provide more functionality.

Usage: Just double-click the app, and a dialog box will appear.

Type the word you are searching, choose a search type if necessary, and hit the enter/return key. In a moment, a web page will load.

Then click through to the MED page of your choice.

The first time you run this you will likely get a dialog box asking if you want to give the app access to your documents folder; it's OK to say yes, because that is just asking so it can put the generated web page in your documents folder. The app doesn't actually look at anything in that folder.

If you want the MED pages to open with all of the quotations actually showing, use MED Open Click.user.js with a userscript manager for your browser. (I use Userscripts with Safari.)

This is built using the command-line script 2.2.g, also available here on GitHub if you would rather use it. The app is easier, though :)