Re: vim: thesaurus

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|...

You need to put each entry on a single line that looks like this:

abbreviate|reduce|abridge|foreshorten|...

This may be done, for example, with awk:

awk '/\|[0-9]+$/{if (NR!=1) print "";sub(/\|[0-9]+$/,"");printf
$0;next}{printf "|"$0}END{print "";}' th_en_US_v2.dat >th_en_US_v2.txt

(This command is a single line.)

Then, you may remove the spurious parts, like (verb) or (generic term).
That may be done by editing the thesaurus in Vim:

:%s/([^)]\+)//g

There are some other adjustments to be done, like || to be replaced
by |, and some spaces to be removed.

But, there is an inherent limitation in Vim (as far as I know). If you
ask for suggestions in LibreOffice/OpenOffice for 'abbreviate', you'll
get the list above. Vim, instead, will show you *all* the words in
*all* the lines in the thesaurus containing 'abbreviate'. So, for
example, since the thesaurus also contains:

bowdlerise|1
(verb)|bowdlerize|expurgate|...|abbreviate (generic term)|...

you'll get 'bowdlerise', too.

I wish there were an option to tell Vim to offer only the suggestions
in those lines of a thesaurus that *start* with a given word.

Nicola


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