Use Purple dictionary for looking up words

[Cris Dywan]

I would love to have Synapse use Purple, the new Elementary dictionary, to look up words.

Note that I don't know how it works, or what the requirements are for supporting a new application. If you can point me to some documentation I might have a look into it myself.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

For the record, Purple can now be called with 'purple -d WORD' or 'purple --define WORD' and either spawn a new instance or use an existing one.

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

The correct thing to do here would be adding a configuration option to Dictionary plugin to be able to specify the executable being used. (and the word parameter)

[Robert Benjamin (i-am-robert-benjamin)]

I'm on eOS 0.1 Jupiter right now, am using Synapse, and would love this functionality! Maybe have it so you'd enter "define WORD" and then it'd look it up in Lingo/Purple?