vim-sdcv

A not-invented-here sdcv plugin for Vim.

Usage

sdcv.vim defines the command Sdcv, which accepts words and phrases as arguments. Multiple words can be searched at once. For example, the command

Sdcv star planet moon

will show the definitions of "star", "planet", and "moon". Multi-word phrases (e.g., "rain cats and dogs") can also be passed, but spaces need to be escaped (and not quoted):

Sdcv rain\ cats\ and\ dogs

It is also possible to use sdcv as the 'keywordprg' (so that word definitions can be looked up by pressing K in normal mode):

set keywordprg=:Sdcv

Custom Dictionaries

The command Sdcv passes all its arguments to the sdcv executable directly and thus custom dictionaries can also be selected using the --use-dict (or -u) option like one would usually do with sdcv. Alternatively, the global variable g:sdcv_args can be used to specify the arguments passed to sdcv, e.g.,

let g:sdcv_args = [
      \ '--utf8-input',
      \ '--utf8-output',
      \ '--use-dict',
      \ 'Moby Thesaurus',
      \ 'Wordnet'
      \ ]

Filters

sdcv's output may not always be very pretty and thus it makes sense to filter it. The variable g:sdcv_filter can be defined to use a custom filter program, e.g.,

let g:sdcv_filter = 'sdcv-prettify'

License

Public domain. See the file UNLICENSE for more details.