Re: vim: thesaurus

On 2016-02-12 18:04:09 +0000, Nicola said:

> On 2016-02-12 14:16:50 +0000, Nicola said:
>
>> Another possibility is to download an .oxt file, change the suffix to
>> .zip, uncompress it, and open the thesaurus .dat file (it is a text
>> file). I have taken a quick look at one of them, and it should not be
>> too hard to turn it into a format usable by Vim: removing the first
>> line and the parts in parentheses should be enough.
>
> Mmh, not so fast. Each entry in a .dat file has this form:
>
> abbreviate|2
> (verb)|reduce (generic term)
> (verb)|abridge|foreshorten|shorten|cut|contract|reduce|...

Another idea: one might set completefunc to call a function that searches
a file in the above format. Such function might even use the associated
.idx file for faster retrieval.

Nicola


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