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commit ab8723ae58330bc5b425815d0d56754be943fac6
parent 7985ed7f4cf57f6a892bf04a2cd4ece1c846c7d2
Author: Riaz <riaz@riazj.com>
Date:   Sat,  4 Oct 2025 21:54:54 -0700

Update sxhkd configuration for sdcv

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diff --git a/articles/dictionaries.html b/articles/dictionaries.html
@@ -12,12 +12,19 @@
 <h1>Notes on Offline English Dictionaries</h1>
 <hr>
 <article>
+<pre>export SDCV_PAGER=less</pre>
+<pre>
+alt + d
+	phrase="$(:|dmenu -p "Define:")" &amp;& st sdcv "$phrase"
+</pre>
+<h2>Previous Setups</h2>
+<h3>dictd</h3>
 <p><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dictd">Install dictd, and configure it to use offline dictionaries.</a></p>
 <p>To use dict with dmenu, create an index. The following assumes that you are using the WordNet dictionary.</p>
 <pre>
 cd ~/.local/state
 cp /usr/share/dictd/wn.index .
-sed "s/&#9;.*//g" wn.index | sort -n &gt; wn.tmp &amp;& mv wn.tmp wn.index
+sed "s/	.*//g" wn.index | sort -n &gt; wn.tmp &amp;& mv wn.tmp wn.index
 </pre>
 <p>Note that in the sed command above, there is a tab, but your browser might show a space. If you copy it to your clipboard, it should work regardless.</p>
 <p>To use this with sxhkd:</p>
@@ -25,16 +32,9 @@ sed "s/&#9;.*//g" wn.index | sort -n &gt; wn.tmp &amp;& mv wn.tmp wn.index
 alt + shift + d
 	definition="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dmenu_dict"; \
 	dict "$(dmenu -i -l 10 &lt; $XDG_STATE_HOME/wn.index)" &gt; "$definition"; \
-	[ -s "$definition" ] && st less -+F -c "$definition"
-</pre>
-<p>2025 Aug 8th: I switched back to sdcv since the AUR has a repository with only the WordNet files without its programs.</p>
-<pre>
-alt + d
-	def="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/sdcv"; \
-	sdcv -n "$(:|dmenu -p "Define:")" > "$def"; \
-	[ -s "$def" ] && st less "$def"
+	[ -s "$definition" ] &amp;& st less -+F -c "$definition"
 </pre>
-<p>I no longer use the following hacky setup with GCIDE. Its custom markup sucks.</p>
+<h3>GCIDE</h3>
 <pre>
 cd gcide
 for f in CIDE*; do; mv $f "${f#*.}"; done