Lookup word in dict

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created November 20, 2005 · complexity basic · author Jan Christoph Ebersbach · version 6.0

Put this in your vimrc to lookup the inner or selected word in dict. Please adjust latin1 to your encoding.

nnoremap ,l mayiw`a:exe "!dict -P - $(echo " . @" . "\| recode latin1..utf-8)"<CR>
vnoremap ,l may`a:exe "!dict -P - $(echo " . @" . "\| recode latin1..utf-8)"<CR>

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