ding only matches words beginning a-i

[Ian Johnston]

No words in either English or German beginning j - z are matched or appears in search results, which instead contains "Binary file /usr/share/trans/de-en matches"

Latest ding under up-to-date Xubuntu 16.04, 64-bit.

[Roland Rosenfeld (roland)]

I suppose, you configured ding to use egrep for searching the dictionary?
Please try, whether it helps to add "-a" to the egrep options.
Alternatively using agrep or internal-grep should work around your problem, too.

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

I can confirm the issue and that both suggestions fix the issue, i.e. adding "-a" to the egrep options or switching to the internal grep implementation. I cannot tell if I have changed this in my 14.04 install before upgrading (if that was possible at all, I cannot remember the GUI at all). I certainly did not change it in 16.04 (updated yesterday).

[Christian Weiske (cweiske)]

I also had this after upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04.

I did not change any ding settings before. After removing my ~/.dingrc file, it started to work again.