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Documentation for the Dict plugin for Supybot
Purpose
Commands that use the dictd protocol to define words.
In order to use this plugin you must have the following modules installed:
- dictclient: http://quux.org:70/devel/dictclient
Usage
This plugin provides a function to look up words from different dictionaries.
Commands
- dict [<dictionary>] <word>
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Looks up the definition of <word> on the dictd server specified by the supybot.plugins.Dict.server config variable.
- dictionaries takes no arguments
-
Returns the dictionaries valid for the dict command.
- random takes no arguments
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Returns a random valid dictionary.
- synonym <word> [<word> ...]
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Gets a random synonym from the Moby Thesaurus (moby-thesaurus) database. If given many words, gets a random synonym for each of them. Quote phrases to have them treated as one lookup word.
Configuration
- supybot.plugins.Dict.default
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This config variable defaults to "*", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.
Determines the default dictionary the bot will ask for definitions in. If this value is '*' (without the quotes) the bot will use all dictionaries to define words.
- supybot.plugins.Dict.public
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This config variable defaults to "True", is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.
Determines whether this plugin is publicly visible.
- supybot.plugins.Dict.server
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This config variable defaults to "dict.org", is not network-specific, and is not channel-specific.
Determines what server the bot will retrieve definitions from.
- supybot.plugins.Dict.showDictName
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This config variable defaults to "True", is network-specific, and is channel-specific.
Determines whether the bot will show which dictionaries responded to a query, if the selected dictionary is '*'.