Emacs: Lookup Web (xah-lookup.el)

Emacs package xah-lookup.el provides emacs commands for looking up web or programing docs. It provides the following commands.

• xah-lookup-web → generic
• xah-lookup-google → use Google
• xah-lookup-yandex → use Yandex
• xah-lookup-wikipedia → use wikipedia

• xah-lookup-word-definition → generic word definition
• xah-lookup-word-dict-org → use dict.org
• xah-lookup-wiktionary → use wiktionary
• xah-lookup-etymology → use etymonline.com

They switch to browser to show results, for the word under cursor or text selection in emacs. You can also set it up to use Emacs Eww Web Browser .

Get it by Donation

Goto paypal.com, send $32 to Xah@XahLee.org (be sure to include your correct email address. I need that to send it to you.)

Write in message area: xah-lookup.el

Manual Install

To install manually, place this file xah-lookup.el in the directory ~/.emacs.d/lisp/

Then, place the following code in your emacs init file

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")
(require 'xah-lookup)