Emacs: Xah 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-baidu → use Baidu
• xah-lookup-wikipedia → use wikipedia
• xah-lookup-internet-archive → web archive

• xah-lookup-map → lookup map.

• xah-lookup-word-definition
• xah-lookup-word-dict-org
• xah-lookup-wiktionary
• xah-lookup-synonyms
• xah-lookup-all-synonyms
• xah-lookup-etymology

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)