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;;; webster-www.el --- Look up a word in WWW Merriam-Webster dictionary
;; Copyright (c) 1997 by Tomasz J. Cholewo <t.cholewo@ieee.org>
;; Created: 1997/03/10
;; Version: 1.0
;; Keywords: comm, hypermedia
;; This file is part of XEmacs.
;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
;; General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
;; 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Synched up with: not in FSF.
;;; Code:
(defvar webster-url "http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mweb?book=Dictionary&va="
"URL to reference for Webster's dictionary.")
;;;###autoload
(defun webster-www (arg)
"Look up a word in the Webster's dictionary at http://www.m-w.com using WWW."
(interactive (list
(let ((prompt (concat "Look up word in webster ("
(current-word) "): ")))
(read-string prompt))))
(require 'url)
(require 'w3-forms)
(if (equal "" arg) (setq arg (current-word)))
(funcall browse-url-browser-function
(concat
webster-url
(w3-form-encode-xwfu arg))))
(provide 'webster-www)
;;; webster-www.el ends here
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