et

A CLI/rofi/dmenu script with features to aid you with English.

Preview

rofi_et

dmenu_et

Features

• Spellcheck and suggestions (offline, based on a wordlist)
• Define (online, based on wordnik.com)
• Synonyms (online, based on bighugelabs.com)
• Antonyms (online, based on bighugelabs.com)
• Abbreviations (online, based on Abbreviations.com)
• Pronunciation (online, based on macmillandictionary.com)

Dependencies

The installation script won't install the dependencies for you because I don't know the package names on distros other than Arch

• rofi or dmenu
• xclip from the xclip package (X) or wl-copy from the wl-clipboard (Wayland) package on Arch => to copy selected spelling suggestion to clipboard
• notify-send from libnotify package on Arch => to notify you on copying a spelling suggestion to clipboard
• agrep from tre package on Arch => to do fuzzy searching in the wordlist to get spelling suggestions
• sox from sox package on Arch => to play pronunciation

Installation

1. clone this repo => git clone https://github.com/PlankCipher/et.git
2. cd into the cloned repo directory
3. run install.sh => ./install.sh
4. Voila 🎉

You will be asked to enter your password for sudo to move the executables to /sbin/ so that they're accessible from anywhere

Included

• et (simple underlying cli tool, run et -h for help)
• rofi_et (a rofi menu for et, run rofi_et then help for help)
• rofi_et_mode (a rofi custom mode for et, run rofi -modes 'et:rofi_et_mode,drun,window' -show et then help for help)
• dmenu_et (a dmenu script for et, run dmenu_et and then help for help)

Usage

et

Usage: et OPTION [WORD]

Options:
  -abr or --abbreviations
    print what WORD might stand for from abbreviations.com. (WORD is required for this option)

  -ant or --antonyms
    print antonyms for WORD from bighugelabs.com. (WORD is required for this option)

  -def or --define
    print definitions for WORD from wordnik.com if correctly spelled, otherwise print spell suggestions. (WORD is required for this option)

  -pro or --pronounce
    play American English pronunciation of WORD from macmillandictionary.com. (WORD is required for this option)

  -spl or --spell
    print spell suggestions for WORD from wordlist if not spelled correctly (exits with 1 as exit code), otherwise print a message indicating that WORD is spelled correctly. (WORD is required for this option)

  -syn or --synonyms
    print synonyms for WORD from bighugelabs.com. (WORD is required for this option)

  -h or --help
    print this help message and exit

rofi_et, rofi_et_mode, or dmenu_et

Credits

• I got words_alpha wordlist from this repo.
• wordnik.com is used to get definitions.
• abbreviations.com is used to get what abbreviations stand for.
• bighugelabs.com is used to get synonyms and antonyms.
• macmillandictionary.com is used to get American English pronunciation.

Contributions

Contributions are very welcome.